Bill Nye Quotes

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.

There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

The brain is such an incredible computer.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

If you could change the neural pathways in your brain so that you could recall everything you've ever heard, taste, smelled or touched, basically from the womb on, and use it at your disposal, that's an interesting concept.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Memory, the warder of the brain.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

We cannot develop and print a memory.

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.