Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they’re doing it differently. They don’t do brain surgery the way they used to do it either. – Tom T. Hall
To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works. – Sebastian Seung
If I don’t like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that’s there. It’s really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it. – Tao Lin
When you hit a groove, it’s not you; it’s the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They’re the ones that are really happy. – Tommy Chong
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section. – Walter Rudolf Hess
Of course, genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. – Steven Pinker
I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm? – Tamala Jones
I prefer to be covered. I don’t wear a lot of low-cut things. I’d rather keep the attention to my brain, my face. – Sarah Hay
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different – the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is. – Stanley B. Prusiner
There’s always a part of my brain saying: ‘Stop getting comfortable. Don’t relax.’ Because I find it difficult to write when I’m happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something. – Tom Odell
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along. – Steven Pinker
I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis. – Siri Hustvedt
They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn’t bleed anymore. – Teri Garr
All human states are organic brain states – happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels – and our brains are not static. – Siri Hustvedt
I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong. – Walter O’Brien
I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don’t pick, and the reason I don’t redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes. – Sergio Aragones
I don’t think anyone can do any character that doesn’t have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you’ve experienced. – Thomas Middleditch
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them. – Scott Stossel
Over the years, I’ve lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament. – Sarah Hall
My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don’t worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it’s gone. – Stefano Pessina
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: ‘How can anyone NOT be interested in it?’ Everything you call ‘human nature’ and consciousness arises from it. – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them. – Susumu Tonegawa
I am never not thinking about stories. ‘The Bone Season’ is 90% of my brain – 10% is interacting with the rest of the world. – Samantha Shannon