Internet Neuroscience Resources for Kids
"We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite
properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.
When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."
--- Carl Sagan
"The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells
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called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far
exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it."
--- William F. Allman
"The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents
and great stretches of unknown territory."
--- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
"Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of
flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern - always a meaningful pattern
- though never an abiding one."
--- Sir Charles Sherrington
"Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a
crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural
conversations."
--- Diane Ackerman
"The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter
that we know."
--- Isaac Asimov
"A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer
comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in
fact of the whole world with its problems."
--- John C. Eccles