Quotes of: Brain-power Keyword

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to scienc...

Richard Dawkins

The great triumph (or horrible tragedy, depending on how you look at it) of being human is that our brains have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to understand our mortality. We are, sadly, self-aware creatures. Even if we move through the ...

Caitlin Doughty

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other long enough to see that a body is a thing of beauty, is a miracle of rivers and oceans and islands and continents contained within itself? That ...

All Rivers Flow To The Sea

He who has not been given brains from above will not buy them at the apothecary.

Czech

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Saramago

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three....

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.

The Ghost of Graylock

Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.

A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary

A brick could be used as brain filler for the political mind, just in case one of our elected officials needs a brain transplant to try to boost their intellectual capabilities.  

Brick

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

Claude Vorilhon

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Steve Carell

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

Jason Mraz

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

On Aggression

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

The Idiot

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Killosophy

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.

Neanderthal Seeks Human