Paul Allen Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

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

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

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

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 don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and your free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

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?

We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.

I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.

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.

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