Brain Complexity Quotes

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

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

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

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

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.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

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

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

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

The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.

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

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

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

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.