When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
All of the physical injuries are like souvenirs. But the emotional stuff is harder. When youre spending 17 straight days in a… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
“Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease affecting the central nervous system (CNS: the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves). It is not… — Nancy J. Holland Copy Share Image
Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Those who experience symptoms complain of abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, and intestinal distress. Some people, however, don’t experience obvious signs of… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The combination of the Main brain with its central nervous system, and the ancient Animal Brain with its somatic, enteric nervous system… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
“After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We… — Dielle Ciesco Copy Share Image
“I just can't help thinking what a real shake up it would give people if, all of a sudden, there were no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
