J. Michael Straczynski 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.

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

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

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

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 think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

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

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

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

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

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.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

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

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

The brain is constantly adapting.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.