John Searle Quotes

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

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

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

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

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

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

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

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.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

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’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

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

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.