cerebral function Quotes

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.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

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

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

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

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

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

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.

Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

Minds are simply what brains do.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

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

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.