Howard Gardner Quotes

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

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

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

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

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

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

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

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

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 brain runs its show incognito.

Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.

Minds are simply what brains do.

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

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

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

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?

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

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.

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

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.