“The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.” ProcessResultsBrainStudyMysterySubjectsJokesRemainsScholarly Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
“No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.” WayLongSoulCharacterSeemsAbleSpiritBrainKnownMoralClassRemainsPossessionAlcoholFoolishContactInsaneSubstanceMarvelousTransformingEntrances Author:Timothy Shay Arthur
“The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.” MindReligionBrainParticularRemainsSiteHarborsSatellitesGlands Author:E. O. Wilson
“Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!” HeartBrainYouthRemains Author:Winston Churchill
“And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.” HumanityLiteratureLanguageNationsWaterPerfectBrainGeniusGloryMarkRemainsPracticalsKingdomsSpiteCivilizedStomachIrelandClosetsGadgetsEnglish LiteratureCivilized Nations Author:James Joyce
“... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?” TwoSeemsTurnsLanguageSidesHoursBrainPrinciplesEqualMathematicsRemainsSticksCornersClockSquaresGeometryTwo SidesAlgebraTheoremsTrianglesTrigonometry Author:Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
“Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!” WellsBookBodyYoungBrainForeverRemainsForever Young Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.” GivingMayFactsProblemFormEnergyUnderstandingAnswersBrainEmotionalCrisisRemainsSurpriseProfoundInsightMusclesReservoirsLife Crisis Author:Bruce Lee
“With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.” HumansHandsBrainCamerasRemainsDevicesSophisticationCoarseHuman Hands Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.” ThinkingWorldKindMadeStillsIdeasResultsBrainKnownEventsInformationParticularConnectionsEssenceRemainsCellsThese DaysAnalysisEncountersSuggestionsPsychologistSensoryCorrespondingHayekReinforcementVon Hayek Author:Gerald Edelman
“In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.” StatesProcessLevelsBrainActivityRemainsDescriptionProbability Author:Patricia Churchland
“Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.” IfsShouldMindPhilosophyCoursesLiteratureSimpleNumbersBrainIdentityRemainsPhilosopherFamiliarPsychologicalExplanationGapsTopicsShockingIntuitivePsychologistHeadingsPlausibleTheoristsDualismDevelopmental Author:David Papineau
“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.” LeftBrainCuttingArmyRemainsSoldierBlowAfghanistanWoundedThank YouNavyRiflesJest Author:Rudyard Kipling
“Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.” HumansSeemsSecretBrainMysteryRemainsSurpriseHuman BrainUnsolved Mysteries Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.” IfsWritingYearsHumansImportantIdeasDiesLeftBrainForeverFiveGeniusSpringRemainsBottomCommunicateThirtyFive YearsVolumeEarnestExplainingHuman Thought Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.” IfsBrainRemainsEdgesYou AgainFingertips Author:Charles Bukowski
“The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.” HumansChallengesBrainStudyDiseasePhilosophicalRemainsHuman Brain Author:Floyd E. Bloom
“While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the old problem of relating mind to brain in a reasonable fashion remains unaccomplished.” MindHas BeensProblemBrainStudyFashionAmountRemainsEnormousPsychologicalDataCharacteristicsReasonableTechnological Author:Michael Gazzaniga
“The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.” MindHumansAgeUsedForceBrainBasesRemainsBarsAdvertisingCopiesFreedom Of SpeechPersuasionWashingBendingPulpPrimacyHuman Psyche Author:Nadine Gordimer
“Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.” WayNeedsMayLongStatesBrainProduceHorrorClothesGoldDoctorsRemainsFishesWarmSexualityIntenseDefinedEveningInnocenceGentlemanRealmsConventionalBowlsCorpsesHintsDoctor WhoSunnyUnspeakableEuphoriaLife Or DeathGirlhoodUnexploredSunny DayConventional WaysFish Bowls Author:Vincent Canby