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"By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race."
"what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination"
"An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains."
"A man with so large a brain must have something in it."
"Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents."
"The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes."
"The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them."
"All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain."
"Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think."
"My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten."
"My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies."
"I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking."
"True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy."
"I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment."
"The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain."
"It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys."
"The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half."
"I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's."
"To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself."
"The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth."
