#brain

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. ↗

— David Eagleman

#billions #brain #connections #galaxy #given

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. ↗

— David Eagleman

#colossal #find #happening #our #them

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#age #begin #behind #brain #by the time

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#brain #candy #entertain #fiction #god

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#enough #fools #honest #practice #to be honest

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #brain #enough #evaluate #formed

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#brain #deleted #everything #i #island

When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#flyer #frequent #get #i #i think

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. ↗

— Anna Friel

#being #brain #empowerment #feeling #forget

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#brains #determining #else #inescapable #just