Michio Kaku Quotes

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.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

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.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.

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

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

There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

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