If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them – never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
… it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.