Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Oliva

Brain dead? You can't be brain dead to play baseball, because you always have to adjust. Latin players, they're smart. I have friends all over the world, Spanish friends and English-speaking friends. They don't care. If you're good, you're good.

Vision doesn't happen in the eye. It happens at multiple processing stages in the brain. We study how objects are signaled or encoded by large populations of neurons at higher-level stages in the object-processing part of the brain.

What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention.

Louis L'Amour

What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i

E. P. Thompson

We found that the frontal lobes were the last to develop. These brain regions control inhibition, rash actions, rage and anger.

We kind of went brain dead for 10 seconds in a 2-2 game.

You can't check your brain at the door, ... I'd like to encourage people to be wise consumers and not take any information at face value.

You can't be off on your own. It's going to take resources and it's going to take multiple brain power and it's going to take creativity from more than one person.

You can measure the distance to go through brain to see whether you're drilling through too much brain. If you don't like it, you can change your approach.

We're suffering from a shortage of rigorous ideas about what's happening to function in the human brain in these diseases.

Stephen Jay Gould

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

Stephen Jay Gould

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.

Jonathan Adelstein

These records can include some of the most private personal information about an individual. Finding out who people are calling and for how long can be like picking someone's brain about their friends, plans or business dealings.

is one of the leading candidates for explaining how the changes we see in the brains of schizophrenics might have come about.

I see this as a fascinating experiment that reveals the tremendous capacity for plasticity in the developing brain.

I've been racking my brain on this (issue).

The virus would hit this mutant cell and cause a second mutation, prompting the onset of cancers like leukemia or brain tumors.

These are urgent questions because we're talking about a lot of children and a tremendously disabling brain disease, which really robs a child and a family of the personhood of this child.

Jeff Probst

We sit around and brainstorm all the time, even in our off period, ... We're always asking: What if? What If? What if?

We've been surprised to find out how malleable the brain is.

What is very clear is that there is a correlation between brain size and intelligence, particularly verbal ability.

Eric Chavez

We got lucky. They had a brain cramp, and the rest of the game we were playing with house money.

Sathya Baba

The fault is in the mirror that reflects, the mind that perceives, the brain that infers. What the mirror presents as true has no authenticity. The mirror is coated with dust and its face is not plain at all. God has no maya; He has no intention or need to delude, nor does He will that it should happen.

The consequences (of pediatric brain injury) are devastating.

Jules Verne

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Telecommuting isn't brain surgery. It's very easy to implement, but it's breaking down the barriers.

T. S. Eliot

Tenants of the house, / Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.

(Talking about Britain's school education) They take your soul away. They take your brains away. They don't let you have an opinion that's different from theirs. You've got to think what they tell you to think. So when you leave school, your only future is getting married. And by the time you're about 29 you got two kids, and you just wanna commit suicide.

Martin Seligman

Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.

Does it matter if someone's doing brain surgery without a license? ... Chances are, they'll (the patient) have their brain put in backwards.

It's a big puzzle. If this is a knowledge economy, how come the brains aren't being compensated? Instead, the owners of physical capital are getting the rewards.

It's a full brain activity. They have to think about so many things all at once so they're using all the parts of their brains.

It's a first for her, and she earned it. She comes to practice, and she always takes the upper-tier workout ... . She doesn't panic. She runs with her legs and brain, she really does.