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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. -- Edward de Bono
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
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential. -- Ray Stevens
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home. -- David Suzuki
I bet the human brain is a kludge -- Marvin Minsky
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. -- Jeff Bezos
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. -- Edward de Bono
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. -- Isaac Asimov
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve. -- David Sarnoff
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. -- Peter De Vries
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. -- E. O. Wilson
Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself! -- Colin Baker
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. -- Henry Markram
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how. -- Michael Gazzaniga
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly. -- Bill Viola
Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win. -- Martha Stout
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy. -- Sam Harris
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain. -- Michel Houellebecq
No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious. -- Deepak Chopra
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe. -- Michio Kaku
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. -- George Jessel
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival. -- David Perlmutter
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain. -- Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy. -- Garry Kasparov
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years. -- Seymour S. Kety
The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth. -- Tim Green
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. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways. -- Justin Rosenstein
It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity. -- Peter Coveney
All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape. -- Jay S. Walker
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.' -- David Suzuki
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones. -- Naveen Jain
Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple. -- Ryan Tedder
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. -- Jane Goodall
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe. -- Joel Davis
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is. -- Dalai Lama
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape. -- Jane Goodall
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about? -- Francis Collins
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds. -- Lewis Thomas
If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. -- Sebastian Thrun
As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain. -- Floyd E. Bloom
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands. -- Aditi Shankardass
C++ is an insult to the human brain -- Niklaus Wirth
The human brain is the god of technological innovation. -- Terence McKenna
The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual. -- Bill Engvall
The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. -- Howard Hughes
The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering. -- Maile Meloy
Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science. -- Eraldo Banovac
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. -- Arthur Koestler
Education is the brain of human life since education activates the human brain. -- Dr Sivakumar Gowder
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. -- David Bellos
A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain. -- Oliver Sacks
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution -- Steven Pinker
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. -- Benjamin Carson
A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can. -- Sallie Krawcheck
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. -- Edward de Bono
Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought. -- Napoleon Hill
God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain. -- Konrad Adenauer
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. -- Charles Lindbergh
People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years. -- Christopher deCharms
The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy. -- Marian Diamond
I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human. -- Peter Singer
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. -- Ray Kurzweil
The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment. -- Genrich Altshuller
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. -- Oliver Sacks
God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. -- Walter de La Mare
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. -- Helen Fisher
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does. -- Matt Mills
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. -- Michael J. Gelb
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. -- Germaine Greer
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. -- Germaine Greer
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos. -- Owen Gingerich
Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol. -- George Carlin
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior. -- Benjamin Carson
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. -- Donal Henahan
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken. -- Floyd E. Bloom
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain. -- Dalai Lama
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. -- Julian May
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. -- Konrad Lorenz
The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress. -- Frederick Tilney
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system. -- Miguel Nicolelis
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. -- Pamela Stephenson
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- George Jessel
The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment. -- Dannel Malloy
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe -- Richard Dawkins
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. -- Jamais Cascio
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. -- Peter Singer
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. -- Richard Dawkins
The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them. -- Lewis Mumford
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. -- Tan Le
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history. -- Daniel H. Pink
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. -- Don DeLillo
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode. -- N. K. Jemisin
Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol. -- David Pogue
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. -- Wilder Penfield
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue. -- Robert Wright
Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret. -- H. L. Mencken
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential. -- Jane Goodall
The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school. -- Milton Berle
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. -- Gerald Fischbach
Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded. -- Tarryn Fisher
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple. -- Jay Abraham
You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess. -- Julian Barnes
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all. -- Jonathan Haidt
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined. -- Lars Leksell
The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences. -- Daniel Tammet
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb. -- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person. -- Dennis Miller
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial. -- Dick Cavett
Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety. -- Shawn Achor
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. -- Tom Robbins
Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad. -- Jostein Gaarder

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