1,489 Quotes About Brain

The need to use oxygen to offset ‘Summit Brain’ was never discussed during my job interview. Using oxygen daily came as a nasty surprise once I started working at the Mauna Kea Observatories.

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

In the Awakenings movie I found it very interesting that the most profound awakenings in the catatonic patients occurred in 1969, the year that the Aurora Borealis was seen from N.Y. to Louisiana. It seems the patients were getting environmental radiation stimulation in addition to their L-Dopa drug that year. L-Dopa plus radiation therapy may eventually be proven to be a very potent brain stimulant.

La memoria es la capacidad de seguir adelante arrastrando ciertosaspectos de la experiencia. Incluso los músculos tienen memoria, algo quepuede apreciarse con los cambios que se producen en ellos como resultadodel ejercicio. No obstante, y más importante aún, la memoria es lo que elcerebro hace, el modo en que nos forma, y permite que nuestro pasado ayudea determinar nuestro futuro. En gran medida, el cerebro nos convierte enquienes somos(...).

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

When the mind remains the ally of our heart, and the gut is the brain's brother-at-arms, we can tackle the challenging situations, be inspirational appeasers, and stay honest to a fault. If we want to satisfy our quest for the 'real moment,' we must be honest with ourselves and honest to the others and ready to reconcile all intricate contentions. ("Quest for the real moment")

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

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

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