Brain Limitations Quotes

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.