Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking

These computer simulations try only to duplicate the interactions between the cortex and the thalamus. Huge chunks of the brain are therefore missing. Dr. [Dharmendra] Modha understands the enormity of his project. His ambitious research has allowed him to estimate what it would take to create a working model of the entire human brain, and...

When I get time off, my brain is just, that’s it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I’m upset or not happy, but I’m just exhausted. I’m just zoned out.

Recently, the search for what he calls “the splinters that make up different attention problems” has taken Castellanos in a new direction. First, he explains that your brain is far less concerned with your brilliant ideas or searing emotions than with its own internal “gyroscopic busyness,” which consumes 65 percent of its total energy. Every...

Your brain is a forest,And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch,Snaps jumps between the leaves.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

It’s a mind, it works by metaphor.

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they’d rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different manner from the way they play with theirs. The result...

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

The mind is like a circuit ofChristmas tree lights. When thebrain works well, all of the lightstwinkle brilliantly, and it’s adaptableenough that, often, even if one bulbgoes out, the rest will still shine on.But depending on where thedamage is, sometimes that oneblown bulb can make the wholestrand go dark.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

Life is unlikely to end with humans, even if we burn in a nuclear holocaust. The relentless wheel of evolution will pick up from where we leave off and roll to it’s predestined goal. If the human mind continues to evolve, enlarge, and expand, so that we are able to recognize our kinship with the...

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.

Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.Heresy is a...

Doctors say there’s no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of understanding mirror neurons and their function. They may well be central to social learning, imitation, and the cultural transmission of skills and attitudes—perhaps even of the pressed-together sound clusters we call words. By hyperdeveloping the mirror-neuron system, evolution in effect turned culture into the new genome. Armed...

I’m an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe.The lizard brain will fight (to the death) if it has to, but would rather run away. It likes a vendetta and has no trouble getting angry.The lizard brain cares what everyone else thinks, because status in the...

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer

Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible three dimensional grid. This grid therefore contains a thousand trillion connections – that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000 (a quadrillion). It’s hard to imagine this, so let’s visualise each connection as a disc that’s 1mm thick. Stack...

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

All the same,’ said the Scarecrow,’I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.”I shall take the heart,’ returned the Tin Woodman,’for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Holy freaking crap. A suicide bomber just detonated a bomb in my brain,

The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn’t had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

presences” picking up something real that the rest of us can’t pick up, or are they hallucinating? Here again, we must end with the Big Shrug, a statue of which is being erected on the lawn outside my office.

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn’t wired that way. You’re accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

I’m definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it’s just what sinks into a person’s brain.

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

If the brain was simple enough to be understood – we would be too simple to understand it!

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can’t explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they’re happening.

She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their hands. Her own were small, though strong and supple from all the hours of piano playing, but what use was that now? For the first time she understood what real danger...

…education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can’t have higher-level learning- you can’t analyze-without retrieving information.’ And you can’t retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between “learning” and “memorizing” is false, Matthews contends. You can’t learn without memorizing, and if...

What’s wrong with me? I lose my footing, in here.’ He touched his head. ‘When a neuro-typical looses their footing, they yell or escape to the TV, or maybe the doctor throws them on depression meds. But when I slip, I fall all the way through. I feel the ground give way and I’m gone....

George Eliot was the blend of four: the intellectual, psychologist, moralist and realist. In her novels, especially in Adam Bede, she used her intellect to explain the psyche of human beings and out of her explanation reveals such a moral which made her a right realist. It is the reason, to understand any one angle,...

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

He’s not in good shape. The brain started swelling and they were inducing a coma.

Exercise is not an instant cure, but you need to get your brain working again, and if you move your body your brain won’t have any choice.

I think our brain is our soul. I don’t believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.

We can do a lot more in our everyday lives to prevent brain injuries. I’d like to see everyone here, when they buy that next car, make sure it has side airbags. And make sure kids under 15 always wear a helmet for bike riding, skateboarding, rollerblading. We could save a life a day just...

I’ve been some through some things medically. I’ve seen some things on my brain. But I’ve had some treatment – and I’ve improved.