All science requires mathematics†the knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us†this is the easiest of sciences. A fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it. For laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

-Bacon, Roger known as Doctor Mirabilis
  Opus Majus, pt.4, ch.1 (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

Brain, n. Anapparatus with whichwethink that wethink.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

There they are, my fifty men and women Naming me the fifty poems finished! Take them, Love, the book and me together. Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza1.

Wrote one songöand in my brain I sing it, Drew one angelöborne, see, on my bosom!

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', closing lines.

A passion of the brain, as all other melancholy, by reason of corrupt imagination.

-Burton, Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior
  Of love.  Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.3, section 2, member1, subsection 2.

But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout. Some hold the one and some the other; But howsoe'er they make a pother, The difference was so small his brain Outweighed his rage but half a grain; Which made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, called a fool.

-Butler, Samuel
  Hudibras, pt.1, canto1, l.29^36.

Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain.

-Butler, Samuel
  Hudibras, pt.1, canto 3, l.1339^40.

   Each breeze from foggy mount and marshy plain Dilutes with drivel every drizzly brain, Till, burst at length, each wat'ry head o'er flows,

-Rochdale
  Of Scotland and the Scots.'The Curse of Minerva', l.139^42.

The petrifactions of a plodding brain.

-Rochdale
  English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.416.

'You are old, Father William,'the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your headö Do you think, at your age, it is right?' 'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared it might injure the brain; But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.' See Southey 805:96.

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.5, 'Advice from a Caterpillar'.

   Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness on the brain. 226

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Christabel', pt.2.

The phonographs of hades in the brain Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love A burnt match skating in a urinal.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'The Tunnel'.

The Brainöis wider than the Sky.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1862  Complete Poems, no.632 (first published1896).

One need not be a Chamberöto be Hauntedö One need not be a Houseö The brain has Corridorsösurpassing Material Placeö

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1863  Complete Poems, no.670 (first published1891).

Rearrange a 'Wife's'affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man!

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
Complete Poems, no.1737 (first published1891).

If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.

-Douglas, Gavin
  'Be"  te Noire'.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Five Orange Pips'.

   Neat Marlowe, bathed in theThespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear, For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.

-Drayton, Michael
  'To My Most Dearly Loved Henry Reynolds, Esquire, of Poets and Poesie'.

Tenants of the house, Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Gerontion'.

Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise¤   de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe¤   du peuple opprime¤  , le distort, le de¤  figure, l'ane¤  antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
Les Damne¤  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.4,'On National Culture'.