#brain

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#brain #cannot #cave #clever #comprehend

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#eyes #four #fourth #machines #measure

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#cool #fingers #happens #i #jerk

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#brain surgery #did #differently #doing #either

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#different #i #i write #paint #part

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#fills #knowledge #large #merely #small

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. ↗

— Childe Hassam

#brain #eye #impression #interpretation #makes

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#bodies #brain #brains #feel #hanging

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#brain #brian #call #compliment #even