brain Quotes

The brain sure as hell doesn\'t work by somebody programming in rules.

The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data.

I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better - and when that\'s closely related to how the brain works.

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

I get migraines a lot. I get them when I\'m stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.

Actors are the brain of the theater, the repertoire is its backbone, and the other organs are its audience. You can say it differently: roots, trunk - branches.

They talk a lot about the brain drain. But if we had brains, then how did we get to this life?

The real point of me isn\'t that I\'m good looking. It\'s that I\'m clever. I\'ve got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.

I want to see someone like Bobby \'The Brain\' jumping around in his weasel suit with the rhinestones. Guys who are animated like that make the best translation to TV and to videogames.

Physical activity is not just about burning calories but about nourishing our brain and body.

Physical activity is not just about getting in shape; it\'s about optimizing our brain function and mental well-being.

The human brain is the ultimate adaptation, constantly changing and evolving to best suit our environment.

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain\'s and the body\'s systems is inestimable. It\'s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn\'t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it\'s how Richard Lewis feels about it. I\'m a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There\'s a whole new brain operation that\'s being moulded by the computer.

Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.

The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural ion would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be nice to potential reciprocators. It would have been, Be nice to everybody, because everybody would have been included.

Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we\'d be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?

The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to \'replay\' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn\'t.

I mean I think that when you\'ve got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

I\'ll just immediately automatically, without even thinking, check my phone. And it feels like the same little bit of my brain is being - the synapses are lighting up when I do that.

My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.

I\'m extremely neurotic; it\'s the way my brain is built.

I wouldn\'t be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I\'ll say that I wouldn\'t be creatively satisfied if everything was an original. It\'s good to use the different parts of my brain. Very different rules apply.

The further we go, the less we know about how our brain works, especially when it comes to its higher mental functions: the processes of thinking and consciousness

Whatever you train, you change your brain.

In the geography of the brain, emotions are the landmarks by which we navigate our memories.

The brain\'s ability to navigate and remember is its most profound voyage.