#brain

I can see clearly now, my brain is gone. Lucy ↗

— Cathy Hopkins

#funny #love #dating

Stuff your brain with knowledge. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #designer #educational #karl-lagerfeld #knownledge

The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen. Our surgeon, however, has observed the fact that injuries to the brain affect other parts of the body, especially in his experience the lower limbs. He notes the drag or shuffle of one foot, presumably the partial paralysis resulting from a cranial wound, and the ancient commentator carefully explains the meaning of the obsolete word used for "shuffle. ↗

— James Henry Breasted

#ancient-medicine #brain #neuroscience #experience

The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy who was running around the shelves with a finger shoved up his nose. I considered warning him that if he fell, he would poke his brain out, but it struck me that losing intelligence was not something he was worried about. ↗

— Eileen Cook

#dry-wit #family #intelligence #nose-picking #poke

The political brain is shaped like a peanut, only not as big.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #peanuts #politics #humor

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#life #mind #life

without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#control #existence #life

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#bookshop #bookshops #brain #ideas #mankind

While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature. ↗

— Mike McRae

#nature #science #scientific-method #storytelling #nature

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. ↗

— David Eagleman

#reality #science #science