John Eccles Quotes

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

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

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

We have our own brains.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

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

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

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?

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

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.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

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

Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer addressing science and religion while talking about the deep undertaking of your brain.

Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.

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 individual is the brain, not the heart.