Brain

Quotes about the brain.

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• Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
  • Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, 1950

• Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think we think.
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

• Do we trivialize a sublime feeling if we appreciate its dependence on the brain? Not in the least. Its significance does not depend on its being a soul state or a brain state...Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.
  • Brain-Wise by Patricia Churchland

• "We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing moral facts. It is called the brain.
  • A Neurocomputational Perspective by Paul Churchland

• "If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."
  • Emerson M. Pugh, As quoted in The Biological Origin of Human Values

• The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.
  • Charles Scott Sherrington
  • Quoted in the article The Human Brain—Three Pounds of Mystery, in The Watchtower magazine, July 15, 1978.

• A hidden spark of the dream sleeps in the forest and waits in the celestial spheres of the brain.
  • Dejan Stojanovic in Circling, ”In Search of Spark,” Sequence: “A Warden with No Keys” (1993)

• The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
  • James D. Watson, Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

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• The Human Brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public!
  • Sir George Jessel

• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
  • Kurt Vonnegut

• My Brain: it's my second favorite organ.
  • Woody Allen

• I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle

• We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
  • Peter De Vries

• The mind is what the brain does for a living.
  • Bert Peeters

• The brain has the potential to unlock secrets unknown. We poor blind, deaf, mute, barbaric humans just have no idea how to unlock that potential.
  • Anonymous