Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible… — Nessa Carey Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. — Jeremy Bernstein Copy Share Image
We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters… — David Abram Copy Share Image
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The neural code usually refers to how your current thoughts and feelings and perceptions are encoded in the signals that neurons are… — Sebastian Seung Copy Share Image
If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The circadian neurons are one of the few circuits in neurobiology where we have a chance to understand at multiple levels how… — Michael Rosbash Copy Share Image
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that… — William Allman Copy Share Image
In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
