At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we ...
Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a co...
I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off an...
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brai...
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provi...
Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they? Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.
Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart without brain.
Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
Nothing is as engaged as a retentive human brain as uncounted events is inhibited in it
In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.
Half a brain is enough for him who says little.
The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain scanners offe...
