Carl Jung Quotes

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer addressing science and religion while talking about the deep undertaking of your brain.

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.

I've always been fascinated by the body and the mind.

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

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

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

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

I love the human mind.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

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

Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process, and the study of the size of the head. We just wanted to tie it into subject matters.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.