Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
—Stuart Seaton
The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.
—Will Cuppy
When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
—Tadao Ando
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it; it is by nature self-erasing; you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.
—E. L. Doctorow
I bet the human brain is a kludge.
—Marvin Minsky
Summer does something to the brain. It's intoxicating. Everything shimmers.
—Elin Hilderbrand in Summer People
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
—Robert Frost
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call "mind"—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.
—Carl Sagan in The Dragons of Eden