Quotes About Brain

If there is any instrument you must fall in love with and fetishize, it is the human brain—the most miraculous, awe-inspiring, information-processing tool devised in the known universe, with a complexity we can't even begin to fathom, and with dimensional powers that far outstrip any piece of technology in sophistication and usefulness.

The ultimate distinction you make is between yourself and the world. There is the inside (your subjective experience) and there is the outside. But every time you learn something, your brain is altered as new connections are formed. Your experience of something that occurs in the world physically alters your brain. The boundaries between you and the world are much more fluid than you might imagine.

If the story is unflattering and the feeling is anger, adrenaline kicks in. Under the influence of adrenaline, blood leaves our brains to help support our genetically engineered response of "fight or flight," and we end up thinking with the brain of a reptile. We say and do dim-witted things.

As we introduce complex and abstract questions to our mind, the problem-solving part of our brain recognizes that we are now dealing with intricate social issues and not physical threats. When we present our brain with a demanding question, our body sends precious blood to the parts of our brain that help us think and away from the parts of our body that help us take flight or begin a fight.

Don't you listen to them, Rexy," I cooed, and the cat sniffed my nose. "Rachel is a smart girl. She's not going to go out with a ghost no matter how sexy he is. She knows better. Jenkskie wenskie can just get bent." I beamed at Jenks, and he made an ugly face. "Rache, put my cat down before you mess with her kitty brain.

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun

Eight? Was it really eight? Adrenaline or not, this was an insane time to be up. That was humanity's problem right there. They were brain damaged from the early sun.

but then he remembered that the cortex inhibits the lower centers of the brain, so that low cortical arousal allows the more uninhibited behavior of the extrovert, while high cortical arousal is inhibitory and leads to introversion. This explained why drinking alcohol, a depressant which lowers cortical arousal, could lead to more excited and uninhibited behavior.

Experimentation had made it clear that large-scale collective quantum phenomena were happening in every brain; there existed in the brain both global quantum coherence, and quantum entanglement between the various electrical states of the microtubules; and this meant that all the counterintuitive phenomena and sheer paradox of quantum reality were an integral part of consciousness.

No happiness but in virtue. No, that wasn't true. Each part of the triune brain has its own happiness. Lizard in the sun, mammal on the hunt, human doing something good. What's good is good for the land. So when you worked as if on the hunt, in light and warmth, at making a landscape--some place for people to live in for ages to come--then you were triunely happy. Surely that should be enough. But then you wanted to share it. Just so there would be someone to be pleased together with.

Many years before, he had learned you could not trust anything you thought between two and five a.m.; in those dark hours the brain was deprived of certain fuels or functions necessary for right mentation. One's thoughts and moods darkened to a sometimes fugilin black. Better to sleep or, failing that, to discount in advance any thought or mood from those hours and see what a new day brought in the way of a fresh perspective.

The brain is a funny animal," he muttered

My whole consciousness underwent some change, a tissue in my brain parted.

La locura se apodera rabiosa de mi cerebro y yo se lo permito, soy muy consciente de que estoy sometido a influencias sobre las que no tengo ningún control

We're more cerebral than physical. Your cerebrum can't have an orgasm.

Listen very hard and follow your heart. Your heart is good. It's your brain that gets you into trouble.

I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed.

Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.

I suppose I must start my brains working, replied his Majesty the Scarecrow; for experience has, taught me that I can do anything if I but take time to think it out.

Fico com o coração – respondeu o Homem de Lata –, porque o cérebro não faz ninguém feliz, e a felicidade é a melhor coisa do mundo.

Yo prefiero el corazón —replicó el Leñador—, porque el cerebro no lo hace a uno feliz, y la felicidad es lo mejor que hay en el mundo.

Mesmo assim — disse o Espantalho — vou pedir um cérebro em vez de um coração. Porque um burro, mesmo se tivesse um coração, não ia saber o que fazer com ele. — E eu vou ficar com o coração — respondeu o Lenhador de Lata. — Porque um cérebro não faz ninguém feliz, e a felicidade é a melhor coisa do mundo.

Sin embargo —dijo el Espantapájaros—, yo pediré un cerebro en vez de un corazón, pues un tonto sin sesos no sabría qué hacer con su corazón si lo tuviera. —Yo prefiero el corazón —replicó el Leñador—, porque el cerebro no lo hace a uno feliz, y la felicidad es lo mejor que hay en el mundo. Dorothy guardó silencio; ignoraba cuál de sus dos amigos tenía la razón

I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.