Jules Verne Quotes

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.

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.

The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.

I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Neuron

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

The brain is such an incredible computer.

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

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.