Friedrich Engels Quotes

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.

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.

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

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

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

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

The brain runs its show incognito.

Minds are simply what brains do.

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

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.

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

Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

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.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

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.

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

Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer addressing science and religion while talking about the deep undertaking of your brain.

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

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