Pervez Musharraf Quotes

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

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.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

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.

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?

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

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

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

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

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

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

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