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Quotes About Brain

He talked a lot about the little grey cells of the brain, and of their functions. His own, he says, are of the first quality.' 'He would say so,' I remarked bitterly. 'Modesty is certainly not his middle name.
~ Agatha Christie
When you have two crimes precisely similar in design and execution, you find the same brain behind them both." -- Hercule Poirot
~ Agatha Christie
My limbs they are paralysed, my heart, it plays me the tricks, but my brain, Hastings, my brain it functions without impairment of any kind. It is still of the first excellence my brain.
~ Agatha Christie
Most details are insignificant; one or two are vital. It is the brain, the little grey cells"—he tapped his forehead—"on which one must rely. The senses mislead. One must seek the truth within—not without.
~ Agatha Christie
Never, never will the grey cells function unless you stimulate them.
~ Agatha Christie
It's a funny thing. When you're tired, general cognitive ability drops. There's scientific evidence to back that up, no question. Because you're slacking off, some other part of your brain—the base, the lizard, the id, whatever you want to call it—tries to compensate. Eighty-five percent brain-dead, fifteen-percent instinctive genius.
~ Alafair Burke
There is no hidden meaning to life ... looking for one is our problem solving brain chasing its tail
~ Alan Alda
Most people have managed to get by without being educated…because, in order to make education more user-friendly, they managed to forget about the changes in people's brains that are supposed to happen.
~ Alan Kay
Studies have shown that an endorphin-like peptide in chocolate works like morphine on the brain. You can even argue that chocolate
~ Alan Russell
Studies have shown that an endorphin-like peptide in chocolate works like morphine on the brain. You can even argue that chocolate is a drug, but it's hard to do so when your mouth is full.
~ Alan Russell
Evolution stops at the neck.
~ Alan S. Miller
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...
~ Alan Turing
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
~ Alan Turing
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~ Alastair Reynolds
Martin Luther would be the headliner of any 'dead-or-alive dinner party' I would ever throw. He is, quite simply, one of the most fascinating brains and compelling personalities in history.
~ Ben Sasse
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
~ Douglas Coupland
I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
~ Garry Shandling
I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
~ Joan Collins
I have a photographic memory for numbers.
~ Jim Irsay
I'm good at keeping my physical health. My brain is not allowed to have injuries, neither is my body.
~ A. J. Pritchard
Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.
~ Brian Greene
I had to find the interconnection of my brain together with my physiology.
~ Wim Hof
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
~ Vijay Kumar
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
~ Anthony Hopkins