Top 7 Michael Merzenich Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Your brain – every brain – is a work in progress. It is ‘plastic.’ From the day we’re born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.”

— Michael Merzenich

2. “Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.”

— Michael Merzenich

3. “To learn is to change how you think.”

— Michael Merzenich

4. “If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle – and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.”

— Michael Merzenich

5. “Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.”

— Michael Merzenich

6. “My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.”

— Michael Merzenich

7. “Whatever the circumstances of a child’s early life, and whatever the history and current state of that child, every human has the built-in power to improve, to change for the better, to significantly restore and often to recover. Tomorrow, that person you see in the mirror can be a stronger, more capable, livelier, more powerfully centered, and still-growing person.”

— Michael Merzenich

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