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“We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.”

Long Brain Five Greater Six Logic Infinite Depth Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Dimensions Broads Inches Geometry Magnitude Ontology

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.”

Mean Persons Law Brain Greater Ordinary Miracle Strikes Grass Gross Blades Laws Of Nature Commonplace Distortion Neurons Suspension Blades Of Grass Ordinary Person

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.”

Years Ideas Bigs Process Brain Millions Greater Happened Tree Particular Evolution Intellectual Advantage Years Ago Species Complexity Tree Of Life Primates Twigs Old Ideas

Author:Steven Pinker

“I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars. For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe. I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.”

“Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?”

Chance Brain Greater Blind Bones Noise Pilgrimage Crass

Book:Edwin Arlington Robinson

Source: Edwin Arlington Robinson

“I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.”

Made Strong Brain Greater Amount Greed Operations Ethical Suspicion Behaviour

Author:Semir Zeki

“Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.”

Reality Artist Brain Greater Substitutes Erase

Author:Semir Zeki

“I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.”

Way Writing States Done Seems Would Be Poetry Realizing Brain Greater Tears Poet Creating Tasks Fishes Refuse Torture Muscles Nerves Passages Denied Organs Agony Jelly Point Break

Author:Amy Lowell

“I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.”

“Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes”

Attention Brain Creativity Greater Findings Solutions Built Innovation Patterns Attributes Mechanism

Book:Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.”

Inspirational Inspiration Universe Numbers Brain Known Greater Connected Billions Cells Combination Molecules Human Brain Neurons Anatomy And Physiology

Author:Brian Tracy

“Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.”

Heart Spiritual Individual Brain Greater Progress Demand Direct Rationality Belly Spiritual Health Individuals And Society

Book:The Kempton-Wase Letters

Source: The Kempton-Wase Letters

“I really believe that an awakening, a greater perspective on our lives and existence is happening. It's really the firing of archetypes that are already built into our brains, we just are able to awaken to a point where we can see a greater beauty in the world, a greater connection and sense of well being. This is what the mystics speak about. The insights fire us up into a greater consciousness on the planet. So it is a greater consciousness at the same time and a greater awareness of our spiritual nature. That is what the 'aha' is.”

“I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.”

Needs Different Brain Greater Mad Vocabulary

Author:Duane Chapman