Santiago Ramon y Cajal Quotes

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

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

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

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.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

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.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

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.

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

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

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

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.