Einstein's Brain

Sep 21, 2005 04:06

I have done my share of studying on Albert Einstein and had heard that his brain was bigger or something, but I never new this. In 1999, analysis of his brain revealed that his parietal operculum region was missing and to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial congnition, and imagery of movement.

So, can I have an operation done to cause this? But really, it is crazy to think about. What if we used more of our brains. What if someone figured out a way to, at birth, re-wire a brain and see what happens. There is so much of our brain that we don't use, what does it do? Why is it there? Is there a part of our brain that could give us "special powers". I so want to move shit with my mind.

And now some quotes from Einstein:

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery- even if mixed with fear- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man."

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

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