Richard Dawkins Quotes

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

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

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

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

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

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

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.

Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'

There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.