No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception... →
Steven Pinker
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from... →
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part... →
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
Hasso Plattner
Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.
I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the... →
Aubrey Plaza
I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
Ellen Pompeo
Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel.... →
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
Alexander Pope
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!