Quotes of: Brain-surgery Keyword

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

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

The Whitechapel Horrors

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

White Noise

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Richard Dawkins

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.

Robin Marantz Henig

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

Robin Marantz Henig

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

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

Steven Pinker

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

Linda Ronstadt

From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.

Martin Rees

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

Miguel Nicolelis

I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.

Russell Simmons

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.

Scott Caan

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

Gertrude Jekyll

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

David Suzuki