Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed. So it's really hard to call this specific neurotransmitter "the pleasure neurotransmitter. "
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.
I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.
Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.
When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
. . . being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.
Just a little bit of exposure to this pulsed digital signal, which is now a cellphone signal, could weaken membranes of the brain.
Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.