Timothy Leary Quotes

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

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.

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 an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

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

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.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

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

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

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

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.