Paul Broca Quotes

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

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

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

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.

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.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

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

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

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

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

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.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.