Roger Bannister Quotes

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

The brain is such an incredible computer.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

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

The brain runs its show incognito.

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

Minds are simply what brains do.

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

Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

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.

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

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.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.

It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.