Lyall Watson Quotes

I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

War is so complex that it is beyond the capability of the human mind to understand all the variables.

The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

A single neuron in the brain is an incredibly complex machine that even today we don't understand. A single 'neuron' in a neural network is an incredibly simple mathematical function that captures a minuscule fraction of the complexity of a biological neuron.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

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.

The mind controls everything; it really does.

It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

If you're only using 10 percent of your brain, you don't even know that you're using 10 percent of your brain. If you're only using 10 percent of something, that means you don't know the rest of the 90!