Quotes About Brains

This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.

We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the break at half-past-nine not freaking out, you have to cram. I'm not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam's homework, bit if it is, his physics teacher is awesome.

I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.

If the universe came into and out of existence and there were no brains to know it, did the universe really exist? Who would know?

To this day I still hear people claim that computers should adapt to users. This isn't always true. Our brains prefer systems that are consistent and predictable, and we like learning new skills.

Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly. 'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out.

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can usually see better than he can think.

our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.

Oh, but how I do miss our lovely city," he sighed. "In Alexandria, there was beauty and learning and tolerance. Here, I see ugly buildings and people who want only to watch the bloody gladiatorial games." He threw up his hands in disgust. "Where are the libraries? Where are the scholars, the poets? This is a place of brutes and beasts, not brains.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

Cephalopods are an island of mental complexity in the sea of invertebrate animals. Because our most recent common ancestor was so simple and lies so far back, cephalopods are an independent experiment in the evolution of large brains and complex behavior. If we can make contact with cephalopods as sentient beings, it is not because of a shared history, not because of kinship, but because evolution built minds twice over. This is probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.

The most startling finding in recent work on animal intelligence is how smart some birds are, especially parrots and crows. Birds have quite small brains in absolute terms, but very high-powered ones.

Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by way of a variety of social learning processes.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things. …In the Bible I learned that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us.

One of the ways by which astrology tricks human brains is via the Barnum effect, which is the process by which individuals take general and vague statements that could apply to anyone and anywhere, and find personal meaning in them.

Men have two outstanding features--their brains and their genitalia. Unfortunately, both rarely function simultaneously.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them, character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Felix had curled up against me for a nap, and I could feel his purr—such a giant sound for such a tiny thing—humming against my ribs. Ever since we'd come to the apartment, Felix had seemed to think that I'd become his mother. It was embarrassing, but I'd given up shoving him away. You can't really expect a cat to act like he's got brains.

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.