Quotes About Brain

Reality is a construct of the neurons.

Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

If you smile, even if you're feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you're happy

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

I think there's a part of the brain, probably somewhere in the back, that won't give up believing in magic. It was the part that made cavemen believe that drawing elks on stone would make for a good hunt the next day. And it's still chugging along, making you think you have lucky socks, or that your kids' birthdays will win the lottery.

FURIES: Over the beast doomed to the fire this is the chant, scatter of wits, frenzy and fear, hurting the heart, song of the Furies binding brain and blighting blood in its stringless melody.

All the seriousness of his plans depends on a steady flow of blood to his brain through vulnerable network of capillaries.

Dehaene even allows himself a few moments of (justifiable) annoyance at the way that childhood reading experts continue their debates about the best strategies for teaching reading to children in complete ignorance of a large and growing body of work on how the human brain processes written language.

Performing the magic, for me, is not about convincing anyone I have amazing abilities. Its about providing a journey which comes to a place where the brain starts spinning. And of course, the best brains spin the most.

This is one of the prices that the biological tribesman must pay for becoming an artificial super-tribesman. The only solution is to find a brilliant, rational, balanced, deep-thinking brain housed in a glamorous, flamboyant, self-assertive, colourful personality. Contradictory? Yes. Impossible? Perhaps; but there is a glimmer of hope in the fact that the very size of the super-tribe, which causes the problem in the first place, also offers literally millions of potential candidates.

Without the cerebrum there would be no imagination, and hence no notion of God!

Geordi liked to call Data's subdominant hemisphere—the part of his brain that was organic, the part of his personality that let him be subjective.

Or, as neurologist Jeffrey Victoroff describes it, "ADHD is a symptom in search of a disorder in search of a syndrome."38

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

But I like listening to any music, including bad music. it's a professional disease, an addiction to notes. The brain finds sustenance in any combination of sounds. It works constantly, performing various composerly operations.

Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt!

A veces el corazón envía mensajes al cerebro, y en otras ocasiones el cerebro parece enviar mensajes al corazón.Los mensajes del corazón parecen ser capaces de afectar la conducta de una persona.3 Nuestro verdadero ser se compone de lo que nuestro corazón le dice a nuestro cerebro, de lo que nuestro cerebro le dice a nuestro corazón, y de lo que nuestra voluntad decide creer, decir, y hacer.

Nadie vive una emoción nada más que en su «corazón», o en su «mente». En cambio, la persona vive la emoción como reacciones químicas en el cuerpo y el cerebro. Estas reacciones químicas ocurren tanto a nivel de los órganos, estómago, corazón, grandes músculos y demás, como a nivel celular.

The brain is the hungriest organ in the body, with a metabolic rate sixteen times that of muscle tissue per unit weight. In modern humans, it accounts for 20 to 25 percent of an adult's energy needs.

Incidentally because the gastrointestinal track is metabolically greedy any reduction in its size would have freed up energy for other demands, such as those of a bigger brain.

In the last 20,000 years, our brains have shrunk 10 percent—from 1,500 cubic centimeters down to 1,350—a loss of the volume of a tennis ball.

In February of 1962, Joseph Bogen and Philip Vogel sliced in half the brain of Bill Jenkins—intentionally, methodically, and with careful premeditation. Jenkins, then in his late forties, recovered and went on to enjoy a quality of life that had eluded him for years. In the decade that followed, Bogen and Vogel split brain after brain in California, earning them the epithet "the West Coast butchers.