“I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.” PeopleChoicesBrainConditionsSizeTransgenderPhysiologicalHypothalamus Author:Mercedes Ruehl
“Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.” GamesBrainSeaConditionsSmartConceptsRiversFishesCome UpBoatLakesFishingSmarterPuzzlesCatchingFishermanTroutMatchingAnglersCatching Fish Author:Lee Wulff
“The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?” KnowsDiesBrainAliveConditionsMonthsPeriodsCostDollarsPatientCancerLots Of MoneyWorth ItDiagnosisBrain Cancer Author:Charles Teo
“Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.” KnowsMenWorldMayHas BeensMotherBornBrainFireBloodConditionsStudentsGeniusHarmonySatisfiedPleasantGreat MenRemarkableMakersVirtuousElectricCommonplaceWildnessDomesticityNatal Author:Gertrude Atherton
“I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.” PeopleIfsKnowsImportantSometimesCertainDifficultInterestingBrainConditionsCommunicationAppreciateMy FamilyImportanceCommunicateContactInteresting ThingsDementiaAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Elliott Gould
“I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.” BelieveBodyI BelieveExistenceBrainWonderfulMysteryConditionsPossibilityDevelopmentConsciousAccountsFundamentalsIncludingInheritanceUnimaginableTranscending Author:John Eccles
“It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.” KnowsFeelsHeartPersonsIdeasWholeTogetherBrainPrinciplesImpossibleConditionsFiguresCurrentsBeing TrueDilemmaHeart And Brain Author:Dean Spade
“What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'” MenShouldHeartMeanHandsWould BeLastsPoorBrainConsciousnessRichConditionsMastersSickWorkersAffairHarmSocialismManageIdleCommonwealthRealisation Author:William Morris
“It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.” KnowsWellsEnoughTodayBrainConditionsArmsMonthsLegsCompareFracture Book:Van Gogh in Arles Source: Van Gogh in Arles
“In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.” KindSeemsCertainBrainCreativityConditionsChaosMidstTriggersAdhdDisorganization Author:David Neeleman
“One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.” MindBrainConsciousnessConditionsMetsOrganizedSensationsStimulationSimultaneousAnalog Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.” WayDifferentSocialBrainConditionsRight NowHappeningsExcitingPressureIllnessThings HappenExciting ThingsSocial ConditionsNeurobiologySocial Pressure Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl