Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.
Lots of distractions - that's good. Murderous angels everywhere - that's bad. That's about as far as my frozen brain will go.
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.
What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.
Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from... not to create a past for you to be stuck in.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
