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
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
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
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
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones. — Julian Baggini 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
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
“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
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 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
“Consistent and chronic distractions have the power we give it focal access, to rob us of our long-term historic memory of unhurried… — Tracey Bond 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
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
Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could… — Evelyn Lau 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
Children have a ton of mirror neurons when they are babies and kids and they mimic what they see and so heroes… — John Assaraf 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
