Seth Shostak Brains Quotations

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.