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I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

~Clare Balding

Topics: Always Been Brains Fascinated How Improved Intelligence Our Work

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Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

~Claude Vorilhon

Topics: Age Been Brain Brains Brought Certainly Children Comparison Computers Five Metal Obviously Our Playing Quite Same Since Six Those Toys Up Were Who Whose Wooden

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I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.

~Clay Shirky

Topics: Addicted Addictive Around Because Brain Brains Changes Changing Effects Everything Everything Changes Facebook First Hesitate Historical Internet Kind Know Me Moderation Negative Now Our Say Science Strikes Taken Things Trick Two Would Years

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Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.

~Cliff Richard

Topics: Brains Celebrities Just Lot Maintain Meet Our People Them

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Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Almost Along Always Been Before Brains Came Computer Details Else Find Help Internet Like Need Our People Problem Remember Remembering Someone Something Syndrome Terrible Them Way Were

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It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

~Colin Camerer

Topics: Before Brains Bubble Crash Earthquakes Going Happening Like Over Pattern People Prices Regular See Some Study Then Up

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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

~Corliss Lamont

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I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Am Brains Immortality Our Ready Sure I Am

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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

~Dale Archer

Topics: Any Asset Beauty Brains Charisma Define Emotional Gift How Intelligence Just Key Like Part Person Physical Prowess Rather Small Small Part Understanding Use Used Way Who You

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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

~Dan Gilbert

Topics: Brains Detroit Meets Muscle Think Where I Think

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