Emily Dickinson Quotes

The brain is wider than the sky.

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

The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

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

Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

We have our own brains.

If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

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.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

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.

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.

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

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?