Ben Carson Quotes

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

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

In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.

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

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

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.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

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

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

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.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.