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If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence. Scott Adams

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I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls. Sebastian Coe

Me You Heroes Too Much Too Back Say Silly About Horse Unreliable Horses Throw He Highly Know Stunt Got Balls Brains Going Size Golf Golf Balls Against Then Much

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are? Seth Shostak

Home Smart Will Power Machine Bits Computers Computing Raw Development Most Terms How How Far Brain Question Brains Behind Human Human Brain Process Processing Mean Far Means Fast

Our brains are continuing to evolve, and perhaps a few tens of thousands of years from now, our descendants will walk around with five pound brains, allowing them insights that we can't imagine. Seth Shostak

It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cells. In other words, the very genes that allow our embryos to grow or our brains to grow, our bodies to grow, if you mutate them, if you distort them, then you unleash cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Nearly every one of the genes that turns out to be a key player in cancer has a vital role in the normal physiology of an organism. The genes that enable our brains and blood cells to develop are implicated in cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Key Cancer Every Our Out Vital Physiology Develop Genes Enable Normal Brains Blood Role Cells Organism Turns Nearly Player

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. Siri Hustvedt

Happiness Writing Fear Sadness Problems Organic Lust Our States Static Dreaming Doing Math Brain Brains Human Novels

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them. Sonny Sandoval

Me World Listening Punk Relate Say Hop Bad Born Something More Tendencies Could Had Opened New Like Hip Hip-Hop Brains Up Bands New World Reggae Them Then Whole Whole New World Hardcore Started Suicidal

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher. Stefan Zweig

Organization Unity Only Idea Exists Brains Unfortunately Plan Jewish

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains. Stephen Graham Jones

You Our Negotiate Eat Only Brains Impulse Us Zombie

I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us. Stephen LaBerge

Reality World Control Our Way Say Evolve Dream Primarily Simulate Around Brains Same Happening Us Reason Consciousness Basically

I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else. Stephen Rodrick

Else Month Arrive Brains Much Premature Dad

I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with. Sxip Shirey

Time You Church Breath Thinking Our Backing Compose About Give Both Truck Come React Without Sounds Go Lot Brains Up Orders Ice Ice Cream Cream Us Things Bells Here Associated Desk

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains. Ted Lindsay

Stupid Too Had Were Brains Managers Owners Realize

I resent it when they write the part of a woman who's just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that's how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit. Teri Garr

Woman People Myth Way Sexy Write Part Instead Wit Operate How Femme Femme Fatale Brains Just Who Using Resent Her

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains. Terry Wogan

Bit More Had Liked Been Intellectual Brains

To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter. Tom Hodgkinson

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Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer. Tony Buzan

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Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless. Travis Bradberry

Stress Long Action Difficult Harmless State Our Prolonged Some Fact Emotional Take Wired Feel Performance Until Least Brains Moderate In Fact Peaks Level Levels

Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that have made us human, with larger brains, smaller guts, bipedalism, and language. Vaclav Smil

Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. Vera Rubin

Women Half Worldwide Brains

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