Marcus Sakey Quotes

When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands.

Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

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.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.

I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours.

I run a number of different brain banks.

Omalu first found the tau 'threads' in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and published his findings in 2005, in the journal 'Neurosurgery.'

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.