Brain - Quotes
You can`t do much carpentry with your bare hands and you can`t do much thinking with your bare brain.
We`re not doing brain surgery. We`re not saving lives... Even if you`re doing Shakespeare, it`s still entertainment. We`re just entertaining people. We`re just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.
My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like, I won`t be satisfied unless I know how to use it.
Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution. Many animals react instinctively with terror and flight at the approach of a predator. It is a healthy reaction, one that allows them to escape from danger. But it`s a terror that lasts an instant, not something that remains with them constantly. Natural selection has produced these big apes with hypertrophic frontal lobes, with an exaggerated ability to predict the future. It`s a prerogative that`s certainly useful but one that has placed before us a vision of our inevitable death, and this triggers the instinct of terror and flight. Basically, I believe that the fear of death is the result of an accidental and clumsy interference between two distinct evolutionary pressures - the product of bad automatic connections in our brain rather than something that has any use or meaning.
The brain is not a bag of chemical soup, and it`s a mistake to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by changing the flavor of the soup.
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
What you`re confusing for love, [...] is the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine in your brain, stimulated by the mammalian hormone oxytocin.
Everything is in the brain. From the beginning. The body is simply a kind of service unit that the brain is forced to be burdened with in order to keep itself alive.
I consider that a man`s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Brain, character, soul - only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.
Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.