314 Quotes About Brains

It looks as though when the brain reorganizes itself during puberty, rewires itself as a consequence of the hormonal changes presumably taking place at that time...we actually get worse at recognizing facial expressions and remembering faces we have seen before than we were 5 years previously,

I think watching him (Peter) win was as exciting as watching the Red Sox win the World Series. He has the engine and strength to accomplish whatever his brain wishes to do. It's not easy to do what he does, but he can do it all out there.

The brain injury is so severe that the daughter you had is gone. It's been destroyed. And the doctor was right for 20 years. She did nothing to speak of.

These kids train their brains out, and that's why they're all here. Everyone who ran tonight really ran well.

They're like a family of two. They could be not quite brothers but could be father and son in a sort of way. And there's the charming fact that Gromit doesn't speak, and Gromit, of course, is the brains of the family.

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.