I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending. – Roger Bannister
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot. – Richard Dawkins
I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy. – Ranbir Kapoor
I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury. – Richard Hammond
Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah. – Rebecca Pidgeon
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy. – Sam Harris
The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain. – Robert Kiyosaki
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception. – Olivia Williams
It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle – the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea. – Peter Mullan
The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it’s how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain. – Steve Mann
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone’s home. – Steven Pinker
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain. – Scott Westerfeld
I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that’s the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work. – Win Butler
I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head – ‘mind map’ is the language my brain spoke. – Tony Buzan
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden. – Stephen Tobolowsky
A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage’s brain. It’s kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It’s not a part of the brain that’s necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality. – Sam Kean
I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits. – Temple Grandin
I’m one of those rare breed of rock n’ rollers with a brain, probably because the brain’s still intact. – Suzi Quatro
The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it. – Simon McBurney
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain – to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are. – Sugata Mitra
Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as ‘chemical imbalances in the brain,’ as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person’s brain cause depression and anxiety. – Siri Hustvedt
Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain. – Sebastian Seung
When I look at someone’s face, there’s something in my brain that just clicks – that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it. – Steve Breen
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people. – Yuri Milner
The pressure isn’t on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. – Ted Danson
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. – Scott Reed
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? – Warren Ellis
