Sarah-Jayne Blakemore quotes

Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.
-- Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

#Light #Years #Brain

I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.