Quotes About How The Brain Works

#1. - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it ...
- They know nothing.

Lois Lowry

#2. If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it.

Toni Sorenson

#3. I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

John O'Keefe

#4. If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

E.L. Doctorow

#5. We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.

Thomas R. Insel

#6. I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

Alexis Denisof

#7. Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Richard Bandler

#8. The people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway.

John Assaraf

#9. New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.

Carmine Gallo

#10. The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount of computation it does is truly incredible, especially for a couple of pounds of meat.

Stuart J. Russell

#11. Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

Irwin Rose

#12. For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.

Francis Collins

#13. You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.

Noah Gray-Cabey

#14. Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.

Patricia Churchland

#15. The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we are as abstract thinking of the highest order. That means that we are all equal part snakes, monkeys, and spacemen.

David Amerland

#16. 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.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#17. Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.

Willi Munzenberg

#18. Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

Louis C.K.

#19. I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

Henning Mankell

#20. Classical works; all (of course) immeasurably superior to anything produced in later times; and all (from my present point of view) possessing the one great merit of enchaining nobody's interest, and exciting nobody's brain.

Wilkie Collins

#21. When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Christopher Nolan

#22. When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

Yoko Ono

#23. To become a good clinical neurologist, you have to be intensely interested by what the brain does, how it works, how it breaks down.

Allan H. Ropper

#24. There's a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can't escape. I have a strange sense of pride that my brain works that way, but I'm also terrified of what would happen if I ever tried to think in another way.

Halsey

#25. This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

George F. R. Ellis

#26. 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

#27. To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

Sebastian Seung

#28. I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.

Bernard Beckett

#29. Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master.

Toni Sorenson

#30. Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.

Jennifer Lawrence

#31. The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love.

Sophie Monroe

#32. We need to learn to treat our own brain better - understanding how it works will help us do that.

Richard Bandler

#33. You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.

Katie Aselton

#34. A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.

St. Lucia

#35. In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful ... You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

Doris Lessing

#36. The brain works fast when it thinks it's about to be cut in half.

Terry Pratchett

#37. Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#38. There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to one pitch in one ear, it's slightly different in the other. That's how your brain works out direction.

Aphex Twin

#39. I'm not a psychopath; my brain just works a little differently than that of the average person.

J. Cornell Michel

#40. Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort associated with trying to put all those different ways the brain works together. I kind of like to avail myself of that discomfort.

Jessica Stockholder

#41. Not my fault that you're distractingly pretty.
I have to take a minute to confirm to the pissed off part of my brain that still works that, yes, in fact, I did just say that. And I don't know if distractingly is even a word. If it is, it's a stupid one. Like me.

Katja Millay

#42. Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

Steven Erikson

#43. What your body looks like has nothing to do with how well your brain works!

Sharon M. Draper

#44. That is not how it works in Ravenclaw, Draco! If you have to push someone into a wall it means your brain is too weak to beat them the right way and everyone in Ravenclaw knows that -

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#45. I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.

Justin Bieber

#46. I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Richard Matheson

#47. A.: Whatever; you must know how it works. An artifact containing... raw feelings, unprocessed sights and sounds and pains that the brain interprets- is that too crazy?
DR. BELKNAP: No. It has existed for thousands of years. It's called a book.

Edgar Cantero

#48. I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

John Romero

#49. I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

A.S. Byatt

#50. There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly.

David Papineau

#51. The brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

David Livingstone

#52. I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.

Diana Wynne Jones

#53. I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

Lily King

#54. The brain works best between half past six and eleven. After that it's mush,

Jo Nesbo

#55. She sighed, knowing she couldn't push it any further. "Thank you for being so ... merciful," Allie said. "But I would appreciate it if Pea-brain here would keep his hands off me."
"That's Pinhead," corrected the boy. "Pea-brain works in the engine room.

Neal Shusterman

#56. I'm actually pretty scientifically interested. I have a lot of friends who are doctors, so the idea of the virus and the synapses in the brain and how the nervous system works was actually all pretty familiar to me.

Noah Emmerich

#57. The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture ... Sometimes ... it seems to me that ... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

Michelangelo

#58. 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

#59. God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Walter De La Mare

#60. I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

Simon Sinek

#61. I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

Pete Wentz

#62. Rules of science." Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. "And what are those? We don't even know how this works." He pointed to his head.

Magnus Flyte

#63. When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.

Israelmore Ayivor

#64. My brother broke into a toothy grin. Yay! Your brain works!

Rick Riordan

#65. Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

James Nesbitt

#66. It is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

Desiderius Erasmus

#67. This is Dee-Dee Molia. And to be honest, I kind of thought there would be more kids like her in our group. I think her brain works fine on the inside, but she needs a lot of help. She even uses an iPad to talk with, which is actually pretty cool.

James Patterson

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Theodore Zeldin

#71. Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

Scott Adams

#72. Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

Koichi Tohei

#73. If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

Lauren Mayberry

#74. The brain works better if the hand works too.

Olive Schreiner

#75. I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man's and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.

Caroline George

#76. It's a mind, it works by metaphor.

Simon J. Townley

#77. I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

Jane McGonigal

#78. I want to get the joke to work without having to put any words or to say anything. I just want the person to look at it, and quietly in their brain, they can just put it together and say, "Cool, that one works".

Demetri Martin

#79. Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

Nolan Bushnell

#80. Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

Pat Ament