Peter De Vries Quotes

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

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

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

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

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

My brain? It's my second favorite organ!

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

Been chatting much with Jared?" "We often have special moments where I come into a room and he immediately leaves," Kami said. "I treasure those times.

I wear a name tag to help people find me. It saves time when you're dealing with idiots.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners."

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

I find people confusing.

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

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

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

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.