Tony Hoare Quotes

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

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

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.