Hugh Miller Quotes

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

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

I love the human mind.

I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

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

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

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

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

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

We have our own brains.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

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