Lois Lowry Quotes

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

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

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

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

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

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.

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.

I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

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 last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.

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

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

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

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.