Nick Bostrom Quotes

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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 brain is plastic its whole life span.

Your mind grows through use.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.

The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy.

Those who grew up digital have different brains.

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

Whatever you train, you change your brain.

I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in your brain. As you get older, things just bounce off. I can remember these minute details of stupid TV shows from the '70s, and I can't remember a book I read yesterday.

The development of the mind comes through movement

The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.