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A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.
Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.
Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.
I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.
Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.
Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?
If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.
C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.
The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.
There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.
Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly. 'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out.
It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.
On radio, I loved Noel Edmonds's Radio 1 breakfast show - and Tony Blackburn. I can still hear those bloody jingles deep in my brain.
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.
There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.
When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.
I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.
We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!
When you can stand over the clouds and watch them roll through the mountains below you, it shifts absolutely everything in your brain.
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.
My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.
Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.