Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

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

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

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.

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.

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

For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

I love the human mind.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

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.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

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

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe