Quotes About Brain

I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

Our brains needed to be able to do more than simply create models of the world. The power of imagination took root in the brains of our ancestors because it helped them predict uncertain futures.

Faced with an impressive and rapidly developing scientific image of the human animal, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that our mental states -the thoughts that we think, the passions that move us, and the decisions that mould our lives- are consequences of physiological processes ocurring in our brains.

journal, in my opinion, is a repository of ideas—your brain on the page. A diary, by contrast, is your heart.

neuronal field," as he called it, created within the brain, which in turn interacts with what he called the "pre-space structure"—a field that all space, time, matter, energy, biological life and consciousness emanates from—i.e., the Source Field.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it.

A dream was a house your brain made without your permission, precisely to preserve memories and experiences and wayward impulses for all eternity, even the dead ones that only caused you pain, the ones from which you most wanted to be free.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.

Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.

It's just a matter of sometimes the CTE in your brain affects what happens in your life... and sometimes... it does not.

Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.

Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.

His garden and his study were full of the rarest plants, but he always bought them half-withered. Perhaps it pleased him to see such an image of his own fate! He was faded like these dying flowers, whose almost decaying fragrance mounted strangely to his brain.

But God must be a good fellow; He cannot owe me any grudge. I swear to you, I would give my whole fortune if faith such as Bourgeat's could enter my brain.

When memory appeared, the effect was dramatic. A multicelled creature could quickly store experience in a nervous system's circuitry. This opened the way for a swift reprogrammer zoologist Richard Dawkins calls the meme*—a habit, a technique, a twist of feeling, a sense of things, which easily flips from brain to brain.

In an attempt to learn more about what happened during a lobotomy, Freeman tried performing them with the patient wide awake, under local anesthesia. During one of these procedures, Freeman asked the patient, while cutting his brain tissue, what was going through his mind. "A knife," the patient said. Freeman told this story with pleasure for years.

While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

A rational man proportions his belief to the evidence," Hume said. The brain study cited by Shermer indicates that we too often do the opposite. We proportion our beliefs to our emotions and process the evidence as our feelings demand

el órgano del corazón envía información al cerebro y al cuerpo a través de cuatro conductos: el sistema de comunicación neurológico (mediante las vías ascendentes del sistema nervioso autónomo); la comunicación biofísica (la onda del pulso); la bioquímica (el corazón segrega una serie de hormonas); y el campo electromagnético que genera el corazón.5

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Ayaz was impressed with the team of brain and brawn that Papamani had gathered around her.

The blazing sun beat down on the concrete of the museum's front yard- Reverend Ryu Yosop felt as if the heat were sucking up all the moisture in his brain and heart. What different colors he and his brother Yohan must have used as each of them painted their own picture of home, of the carnage. These people have constructed yet a different vision of their own, Yosop thought to himself, but it all stems from the same nightmare, the one we created together.