Sebastian Thrun Quotes

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

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

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

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.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

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

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

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.

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 work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

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.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

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

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

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.

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.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.