Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Quotes

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

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.

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

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

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

I was talking to my friend who's a psychologist, who says a woman's frontal cortex isn't fully developed till 25 and a man's till 28. I was almost 34 when we met; he was 39. So I wouldn't say either of us has wildly changed; I just love him more and more.

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

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

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.

It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Those who grew up digital have different brains.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

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?

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.