“External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!” IfsThinkingMenWantIdeasTogetherLosesBrainFourEffectsObjectsProduceWallExerciseDecidedMadIdiotFacultyPrisonerSolitaryShut UpAssociatesConfinementSolitary ConfinementFour Walls Book:Journey to the Interior of the Earth Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth
“Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.” ThinkingEyeScienceBrainFourResearchMachinesFourthMeasurementMarket Research Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.” WellsMightCoursesSpaceAnimalBrainFourPlanetsEvolutionSpeciesPeculiarObserversBugsCasualPredictableOuter Space Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.” ThinkingThreeEasyViewsBrainFourEvolutionPoint Of ViewMathematicalDimensions Author:Stephen Hawking
“Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most people do not actively use their brains. They passively let their feelings and thoughts control their lives. They don't invent new ways to use their brains, either, settling instead for the same routine and repetitive thoughts every day. But if you master all four roles, you create your super brain. When you are the active observer of your feelings and thoughts, you become the user of your brain. Your super brain then serves you, not vice versa.” PeopleIfsWayPlayUseFeelingsBrainRolesFourInspireMastersRelationVicesActiveSettlingRoutineUsersNew WaysObserversVice VersaRepetitive Author:Deepak Chopra
“When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking up again around ten, going until a touch after midnight. I rarely write in the morning, unless I'm on deadline. I do like rewriting in the morning, though. Guess it's the way my brain's put together. Or, the way it's falling apart.” WayWritingSometimesTogetherFallThreeHoursBrainMorningNovelFourTenLunchMidnightFalling ApartDeadlineRewriting Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanLostNaturalForgetBrainFourPlanetsPerspectiveComputerLosingBillionsOrganismsNatural HistoryYears Of Life Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.” ShouldKindTwoMatterPlayWould BeAsksHoursBrainPracticeFourMinutesFingersEightActiveConcentrationMaximumPupils Author:Leopold Auer
“I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.” WorldWayMindAbleUsedHoursMy OwnBrainFourLike YouPhonesFocusedChecksUsed To BeReleaseWorriedChairsInterruptionsDopamineMy Own World Author:Brit Marling
“The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.” OrderFightingBrainFourOrganizationArchitectureVisualsOrganismsFeedingProfileReproductionFacilitateFleeing Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.” HumansThreeBrainFourBillionsComplexityPoundsHuman BrainNeurons Author:Gerald Fischbach
“I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.” KnowsWorldWayYearsWellsHas BeensSeemsMightLanguageBrainFourLoudGirlfriendDemonFour YearsMy GirlfriendSerialsSpeaking Out Author:Blake Butler