I get really into shows, but then I have my brain shut off time.
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sureA weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
We are using all of our brain, all of the time; all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue that we don't use it effectively. Some of us are not trained to use our brains to their full potential. But definitely, all of it is there.
Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.
The U. S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.
Use those brains that God put in your head.
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.
I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.
Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.
If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view.
A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.
In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains - may change human beings themselves.
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.
I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.