[To Veteran Feminists of America, on question whether women should be educated] Is it not a problem that the woman have a smaller brain than a man? The government scientist Dr Yamuka has proved it is size of squirrel. – Sacha Baron Cohen Borat Movie.
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. – Howard Gardner
The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull. – Hampton Sides
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment. – Helen Fisher
I shall be found with ‘Indians’ engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out. – Helen Hunt Jackson
With a theatre audience there’s always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I’m acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready – your voice, physicality, brain. – Greta Scacchi
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. – George Leonard
Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. – Graydon Carter
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you’re still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being. – Helen Fisher
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world. – Gerald Edelman
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. – Gero Miesenbock
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It’s hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously. – Gero Miesenbock
If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office. – Hedy Lamarr
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It’s very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe. – Gerald Edelman
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That’s not the way humanity has courted. – Helen Fisher
It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me. – Hayao Miyazaki
I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly. – Henning Mankell
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – George Jessel
Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table? – Henry Markram
Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men. – Helen Fisher
Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain. – Hasso Plattner
‘Doctor Who’ rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, ‘That doesn’t make sense.’ – Holly Black
Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. – Herman Melville
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue. – Helen Fisher
Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: ‘Do it. Come on. I have to do it.’ – Haile Gebrselassie
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon… or a cardiologist… or a pediatrician… or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny’s worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care. – Heidi Murkoff
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. – George Combe