When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
Marge Piercy
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank... →
Albert Pike
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These... →
Daniel H. Pink
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of... →
You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.
Steven Pinker
Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat... →
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of... →
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they... →
I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual... →