"Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body."

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Source : Tim Birkhead (2012). “Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird”, p.13, A&C Black

Tim Birkhead

#Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes #Body Quotes

“I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.”

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“It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.”
“I guess you could say that I’m the luckiest girl because I got to meet my true hero. She was a precious person. She made me a better singer, a better person. She was the consummate artist and human being.”
“I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.”
“We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.”
“To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.”
“It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.”

Source : Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “When Worlds Collide”, p.97, Macmillan
“Goals that are not written down are just wishes.”

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