Brain Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.”
– Ana Monmar

“Recently, the search for what he calls “the splinters that make up different attention problems” has taken Castellanos in a new direction. First, he explains that your brain is far less concerned with your brilliant ideas or searing emotions than with its own internal “gyroscopic busyness,” which consumes 65 percent of its total energy. Every fifty seconds, its activity fluctuates, causing what he calls a “brownout.” No one knows the purpose of these neurological events, but Castellanos has a thesis: the clockwork pulses enable the brain’s circuits to stay “logged on” and available to communicate with one another, even when they’re not being used. “Imagine you’re a cabdriver on your day off,” Castellanos says. “You don’t need to use your workday circuits on a Sunday, but to keep those channels open, your brain sends a ping through them every minute or so. The fluctuations are the brain’s investment in maintaining its circuits online.”
– Winifred Gallagher

“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”
– Criss Jami

“Mr. McCleod: And if there’s anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you’re abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body’s strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don’t get too dehydrated.”
– Laura Kasischke

“Something I owe to the soil that grew–More to the life that fed–But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.”
– Francis Crick

“When you see activation in [a brain region], you can’t just pick and choose your favorite explanation.”
– Molly Crockett

“[Neuroscientists] haven’t found a ‘buy’ button inside the brain, we can’t tell whether someone is lying or in love just by looking at their brain scans, and we can’t turn sinners into saints with hormones.”
– Molly Crockett

“If someone tries to sell you something with a brain on it … ask to see the evidence. Ask for the part of the story that’s not being told.”
– Molly Crockett

“The effect of video games on the brain [is] very similar to the effect of wine on the health.”
– Daphne Bavelier

“Action video games have a number of ingredients that are really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention, vision.”
– Daphne Bavelier

“How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?”
– Ruby Wax

“For a successful public transport map, we should not stick to accurate representation, but design them in the way our brains work.”
– Aris Venetikidis

“Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today — but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.”
– Sarah Jayne Blakemore

“The brain abhors a vacuum. [It] fills in information that was not there.”
– Scott Fraser

“Technology‘s allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.”
– Matt Milis

“The more things my hands know how to do, the more things that I can be happy and busy doing when my brain’s not running the show anymore.”
– Alanna Shaikh

“If you’re thinking of the brain as a computer, [the neuron] is the transistor.”
– Carl Schoonover

“[Images of the brain] are very beautiful, but they’re also very powerful. They have great explanatory power.”
– Carl Schoonover

“If you take a brain out of the skull and you cut a thin slice of it, and you put it under even a very powerful microscope, there’s nothing there. … It won’t tell you anything.”
– Carl Schoonover

“People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.”
– Christopher DeCharms

“[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it’s not. It’s a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.”
– Thandie Newton

“It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.”
– Billy Collins

“To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush — one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.”
– Ariel Garten

“A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.”
– Antonio Damasio

“How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?”
– Antonio Damasio

“Scott Fitzgerald said famously that ‘he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.’ But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.”
– Antonio Damasio

“The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture — religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.”
– Antonio Damasio

“The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it’s the lived past and the anticipated future.”
– Antonio Damasio

“We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.”
– Antonio Damasio

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