Kay Robertson Quotes

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

"You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing." "And yet I still can't program my DVD player," I said.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

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

Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.".

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

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

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

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

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

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

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?