Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. ‘The concept of ‘brain death’ – the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed – shows that. – Peter Singer
Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that. – Miguel Nicolelis
I don’t know if this is the flat-out strangest, but I’ll never forget handling a human brain. It had been sliced into sections for autopsy, each about an inch thick, and felt like pork tenderloin. I swear to god, my first thought was that if you were to dust it with chipotle and cinnamon and saute it in butter, it would probably be delicious. – Marcus Sakey
Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren’t before you were injured. – Gabrielle Giffords
I’m married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain. – Cathy Guisewite
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’. – David Hume
Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain. – Feng Zhang
We – we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around. – Donald Trump
No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious. – Deepak Chopra
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling. – Michael Redhill
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his. – Ernestine Rose
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what’s around you. You go crazy that way. – Fiona Apple
I hate the Internet. It’s full of rubbish. I’m on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain. – Peter Capaldi
The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity. – Elizabeth Thornton
I wrote ‘Science For Her!’ because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands. – Megan Amram
My fingers are not as fast as my brain – which isn’t that much to type home about anyway. – Frank Lane
I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain. – Daren Kagasoff
I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it’s true. – Diana Wynne Jones
If we can come up with a way of backing up my brain into another that I have in my back-pack, we’ll do it. People talk themselves out of things very easily. Things that they think are a million years away, or never, are actually four years away. – George M. Church
In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it’s really all about the brain. – Chris Cornell
Everyone’s been so quick to say that I’m really thick or I haven’t got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think. – David Beckham
Whenever we feel stressed out, that’s a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck. – Daniel Goleman
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. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
I went to see ‘The Piano’ with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn’t focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely. – Cherry Jones
