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Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

Charles F. Kettering, American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents (1876–1958)

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Reality is inside the skull.

Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony hollow without breaking it open from the inside. The space in our heads will stretch to accommodate them all. The real doorway to the fifth dimension was always right here. Inside. That infinite interior space contains all the divine, the alien, and the unworldly we’ll ever need.

your brain is wider than the sky

Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it. Likewise the sun and whole starry sky of comets and the sun pass in it and shine and move as in nature.. .Is not the whole universe that strange skull in which meteors, suns, comets, and planets rush endlessly?

Kazimir Malevich, Russian avant-garde artist of Polish ancestry. Founder of the Suprematist movement (1879–1935)

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The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.

If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

The brain is wider than the sky

Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls.

The interior of our skulls contain a portal to infinity...of course it's happening in your head but why on earth should that mean it's not real?

Grant Morrison, Scottish comic book writer and playwright

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If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

Imagine the inside of St. Peter’s in Rome filled with a huge quantity of fibers around a millimeter in diameter that crisscross the building in every direction creating a firm mat – then you have an idea of what the brain looks like when magnified a thousand times.

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

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