“The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.” Quote by Marian Diamond
“I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.” I CanStatesDreamFormImaginationMemoriesBrainMaterialsBasesOur DreamsAssuranceExperiences And Memories Author:John Eccles
“A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.” MenWorldWholeFactsProblemCertainUnderstandingBrainFellowsWhole WorldFellow ManComprehension Author:John Eccles
“The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.” MenLastsBrainPerformances Author:John Eccles
“A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.” KnowsAgeBrainDiseaseMajorsMachinesFunctionFoundationInsightCuresNew AgeSpawnBrain FunctionBrain Science Author:Gerald Edelman
“The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.” WorldFunnyContributionSarcasticChipsCuisine Author:John Cleese
“The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction annihilates a person humanly, however intact his body.” MenHumansPersonsBodyBrainHe ManEssentialsNormalDestructionMiseryProfoundDisorder Author:H. Chandler Elliott
“The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.” FunnyBrainTechnologyForeverWiseStatisticsChestsPredictionsLast WordsHumaneSurgeonsHuman BrainIntrusionFamous Last WordsCrazy IdeasBrain SurgeonsAbdomen Author:John Eric Erichsen
“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.” MadeChallengesBrainMillionsObjectsResearchPatternsBillionsCellsNervesDozenThreadUnitsIngenuityIntricateConductingInterconnectedWeaving Author:William Feindel
“The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.” WayHumansOrderThreeStarsNumbersBrainMillionsRichFourAccountsAddExtraordinaryBillionsCellsComplexityPoundsInner LifeMagnitudeLiverHuman BrainNeuronsMilky Way Author:Gerald Fischbach
“The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.” BrainObjectsResearchCastsSurfaceFaithfulMinorsPrincipalSkullsResearchersAnatomyAnatomy And Physiology Author:Franz Joseph Gall