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Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.
Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.
I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.
Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.
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.
Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.
Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.
What I am afraid of is... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on guard and alert all the time.
It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.
Earth's biosphere gave birth to humans and our thoughts, which are now reshaping its planetary cycles. A planet with brains? Fancy that.
I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.
In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the park.
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.
Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their brains began deteriorating long before that.
It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.
People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.
There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains.
I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.
We used our brains to create and program them, and now we have to continue to use our brains to prevent computers from taking over our lives.
Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
The Zika virus invades and disrupts the development of the fetal brain, but the effects on the brains of infants and young children are unknown.
I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
I'm a great believer in trying things, so I've eaten witchetty grubs, a mountain frog, ostrich and alligator. I like tongue, I like brains and tripe.
I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.
I just love the development of horses, getting into their brains, making them more athletic and powerful, responsive, and I'm rubbish at everything else.
Alok Verma cannot be sacked based on the Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC) report without being heard. PM Modi should not listen to bogus legal brains.
Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.
I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.