Quotes of: Brain-power Keyword

Sunshine is helpful for thinking. It warms up the brain cells.

The Summer of Hammers and Angels

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Ray Kurzweil

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Michel Houellebecq

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

Christopher deCharms

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Charles Kettering

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward de Bono

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

Brian May

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

Dick Cavett

The Brain: So what's the word with Em? Brendan Frye: She's gone. The Brain: Can't raise her? Brendan Frye: No, I can't.

Brick

A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession with power goes hand in hand with a fear of power...

Carey McWilliams

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy you...

Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

I deny that one's rational will can be undermined by physical sensation," she said. "One's brain is always in charge." Leo couldn't prevent the mocking smile that rose to his lips. "Good God, Marks. Obviously you've never participated in the act, or ...

Married By Morning

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a l...

Roald Dahl

...It expands; it only destroys because it broadens; even so, thought only destroys because it broadens. A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a b...

G.K. Chesterton

Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique way; and some of our newer brain components talk to each other via some very ancient structures indeed. Our brai...

Ian Tattersall

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.

Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

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

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Richard Dawkins