Brain Quotes

Brain

Quotes about the brain

“Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.” ~ Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, 1950

“Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think we think.” ~ Ambrose Bierce

“The Human Brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public!” – Sir George Jessel

“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

“Do we trivialize a sublime feeling if we appreciate its dependence on the brain? Not in the least. Its significance does not depend on its being a soul state or a brain state…Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.” -Brain-Wise by Patricia Churchland

“We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing moral facts. It is called the brain.” -A Neurocomputational Perspective by Paul Churchland

“My Brain: it’s my second favorite organ.” ~ Woody Allen

“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.” Peter De Vries

“The mind is what the brain does for a living.” ~ Bert Peeters

“The brain has the potential to unlock secrets unknown. We poor blind, deaf, mute, barbaric humans just have no idea how to unlock that potential.” ~ Anonymous