Daniel Wolpert quotes

“We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.”
-- Daniel Wolpert

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“You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.”
-- Daniel Wolpert

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“I am a movement chauvinist.”
-- Daniel Wolpert

Source : "The real reason for brains". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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“There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.”
-- Daniel Wolpert

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“Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you . . .”
-- Daniel Wolpert

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“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”

“Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.”

“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor

“Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.”

“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”

“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”

“Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?”

“The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...”

“I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only….Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,”

Source : "Adam Sandler Signs Exclusive Four Movie Deal With Netflix" By Jordan Sirani, www.ign.com. October 2, 2014.

“But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.”