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“About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?”

“Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.”

Doe Sometimes Brain Trouble Absolutes Size Contracts Elephants Negotiation Whales Outwitting

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.”

Ifs Knows Turns Stuff Brain Teacher Objects Youth Models Absolutes Tyrants Originality Apes Pupils Persecuted Erudite No Sympathy

Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.”

Giving Action Past Understanding Brain Tools Absolutes Guides Useless Power Corrupts Truism

Author:Steven Brust

“There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly.”

Firsts Reason Differences Views Brain Millions Ten Absolutes Response Surface Colour No Reason Mechanism Identifying

Author:David Papineau

“I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast”

“It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.”

Source: Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin

“Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.”

Ends Brain Silence Movement Absolutes

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti