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Wilder Penfield and Lamar Roberts (from Speech and Brain Mechanisms, 1959)

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Wilder Penfield and Lamar Roberts (from Speech and Brain Mechanisms, 1959)

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My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.

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Wilder Penfield (from The Second Career, 1963)

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Wilder Penfield (from The Second Career, 1963)

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The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (from The Home, 1903)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (from The Home, 1903)

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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain--the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

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William Feindel (from the Introduction in The Mystery of the Mind, by Wilder Penfield, Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press, 1975)

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William Feindel (from the Introduction in The Mystery of the Mind, by Wilder Penfield, Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press, 1975)

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Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower (from a radio broadcast on June 3, 1957)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower (from a radio broadcast on June 3, 1957)

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Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and willpower.

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Charles Darwin (from Autobiography, 1887)

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Charles Darwin (from Autobiography, 1887)

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If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied could thus have been kept active through use.

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Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield (from Frontiers of Complexity. The Search for Order in a Chaotic World, R., New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995, p. 279)

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Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield (from Frontiers of Complexity. The Search for Order in a Chaotic World, R., New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995, p. 279)

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It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

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Lewis Carroll (from Sylvie and Bruno, 1890)

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Lewis Carroll (from Sylvie and Bruno, 1890)

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My hand moves because certain forces----electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be----are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.

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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

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Charles E. Boklage (from "Twinning, handedness, and the biology of symmetry," in Cerebral Dominance. The Biological Foundations edited by N. Geschwind and A.M. Galaburda, 1984)

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Charles E. Boklage (from "Twinning, handedness, and the biology of symmetry," in Cerebral Dominance. The Biological Foundations edited by N. Geschwind and A.M. Galaburda, 1984)

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Whatever happens in the mind of man is represented in the actions and interactions of brain cells.

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Floyd E. Bloom (in Fundamental Neuroscience edited by L.R. Squire et al., 2003)

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Floyd E. Bloom (in Fundamental Neuroscience edited by L.R. Squire et al., 2003)

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As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain.

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Susan Blakemore (from "Meme, Myself, I", New Scientist, March 13, 1999)

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Susan Blakemore (from "Meme, Myself, I", New Scientist, March 13, 1999)

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In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

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Keith Black (quoted in Discover magazine, April, 2004)

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Keith Black (quoted in Discover magazine, April, 2004)

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If you look at the anatomy, the structure, the function, there's nothing in the universe that's more beautiful, that's more complex, than the human brain.

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Tim Birkhead (from Bird Sense. What It's Like to Be a Bird, 2012)

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Tim Birkhead (from Bird Sense. What It's Like to Be a Bird, 2012)

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Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

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Maurice Alpheus Bigelow and Ann N. Bigelow (from Introduction to Biology: An Elementary Textbook and Laboratory Guide, 1913)

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Maurice Alpheus Bigelow and Ann N. Bigelow (from Introduction to Biology: An Elementary Textbook and Laboratory Guide, 1913)

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Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.

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Leonardo Bianchi (from The Mechanism of the Brain and the Function of the Frontal Lobes, 1922)

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Leonardo Bianchi (from The Mechanism of the Brain and the Function of the Frontal Lobes, 1922)

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The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.

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R.J.A. Berry (from Brain and Mind or The Nervous System of Man, 1928)

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R.J.A. Berry (from Brain and Mind or The Nervous System of Man, 1928)

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An intimate acquaintance with some of the structural features of the human brain is thus seen to be not only necessary to the physician, but also to the psychologist, the educationalist, and the social worker.

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Tim Berners-Lee (from Weaving The Web: the original design and ultimate destiny of the world wide web by its inventor, 1999)

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Tim Berners-Lee (from Weaving The Web: the original design and ultimate destiny of the world wide web by its inventor, 1999)

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There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.

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Charles Bell (from The Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain, 1811)

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Charles Bell (from The Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain, 1811)

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All ideas originate in the brain: the operation producing them is the remote effect of an agitation or impression on the extremities of the nerves of sense; directly they are consequences of a change or operation in the proper organ of the sense which constitutes a part of the brain, and over these organs, once brought into action by external impulse, the mind has influence.

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Charles Bell (from The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings, 1802)

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Charles Bell (from The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings, 1802)

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In the Brain the appearance is so peculiar, and so little capable of illustration from other parts of the body, the surfaces are so soft, and so easily destroyed by rude dissection, and it is so difficult to follow an abstract description merely, that this part of Anatomy cannot be studied without the help of Engravings.

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Sharon Begley (from In Our Messy, Reptilian Brains, Newsweek magazine, April 9, 2007)

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Sharon Begley (from In Our Messy, Reptilian Brains, Newsweek magazine, April 9, 2007)

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With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

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The Beatles (from the song I'm So Tired)

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The Beatles (from the song I'm So Tired)

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You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain.

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L. Frank Baum (the "Scarecrow" in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

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L. Frank Baum (the "Scarecrow" in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

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No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.

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David Bainbridge (from The Strange Anatomy of the Brain, New Scientist, January 26, 2008.)

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David Bainbridge (from The Strange Anatomy of the Brain, New Scientist, January 26, 2008.)

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The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it -- rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognita where monsters roam.

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Isaac Asimov (from the foreword to The Three-Pound Universe by J. Hooper and D. Teresi, 1986)

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Isaac Asimov (from the foreword to The Three-Pound Universe by J. Hooper and D. Teresi, 1986)

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The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

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And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

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Aristotle (from De motu animalium, 4th century B.C.)

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Aristotle (from De motu animalium, 4th century B.C.)

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The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

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Anonymous (from A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again! by J. Prelutsky, 1993)

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Anonymous (from A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again! by J. Prelutsky, 1993)

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Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

Oil those brains

Before they rust.

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I study the brain, the organ responsible for Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Bernadette studies yeast, the organism responsible for Michelob Light.

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Susan Allport (from Explorers of the Black Box. The Search for the Cellular Basis of Memory, 1986)

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Susan Allport (from Explorers of the Black Box. The Search for the Cellular Basis of Memory, 1986)

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Most of us have spent some time wondering how our brain works. Brain scientists spend their entire lives pondering it, looking for a way to begin asking the question, How does the brain generate mind? The brain, after all, is so complex an organ and can be approached from so many different directions using so many different techniques and experimental animals that studying it is a little like entering a blizzard, the Casbah, a dense forest. It's easy enough to find a way in - an interesting phenomenon to study - but also very easy to get lost.

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William F. Allman (from Apprentices of Wonder. Inside the Neural Network Revolution, 1989)

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William F. Allman (from Apprentices of Wonder. Inside the Neural Network Revolution, 1989)

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The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.

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John M. Allman (from Evolving Brains, 2000)

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John M. Allman (from Evolving Brains, 2000)

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Brains exist because the distribution of resources necessary for survival and the hazards that threaten survival vary in space and time.

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John S. Allen (from The Lives of the Brain, 2009)

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John S. Allen (from The Lives of the Brain, 2009)

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The brain is truly wonderful and complex, seamlessly and apparently effortlessly able to attend to multiple tasks at the same time. However, the human brain, via religion or science, art or technology, has yet to figure itself out.

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Aesop (from Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Mask)

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Aesop (from Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Mask)

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A fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

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W. Ross Adey (from The Mind: Biological Approaches To Its Functions, 1968)

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W. Ross Adey (from The Mind: Biological Approaches To Its Functions, 1968)

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I am often reminded of the image that one might just as well try to understand the sort of people that live in a city like Los Angeles by looking at the traffic patterns on the freeways, as to look at the transmission characteristics in the brain and expect to tell what sort of houses the people lived in, and whether they had Picassos on the walls or preferred the music of the Beatles.

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Diane Ackerman (from An Alchemy of Mind. The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain, 2004)

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Diane Ackerman (from An Alchemy of Mind. The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain, 2004)

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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petite tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.