Brain Quotes - Page 82

I don't care. People here have to find their own way, negotiate for themselves, use their own brains.

The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction annihilates a person humanly, however intact his body.

We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.

The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an inscrutable complexity of form, extent, and relationships with each other.

No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.

The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.

A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Fifty years ago, the way that we consumed food was revolutionized. We began eating processed foods, and it seemed amazing. And then we woke up many decades later, and we realized that food was engineered to make us fat. And I think that such companies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are doing the same thing with the stuff that we ingest through our brains. They're attempting to addict us, and they're addicting us on the basis of data.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

Anytime you have to get intimate on camera, it's always a little interesting. You have to trick your brain almost, so that you don't get stage fright or get too much in your head where you're super uncomfortable.

I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

When you see something every day, it gets into your brain.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.