“The system prefers that our neurons solve differential equations rather than smell our neighbours.5” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once. — Hollis Frampton Copy Share Image
“Neurons that fire together, wire together. Neurons that fail to link, fire out of sync.” — An Article on Neuroplasticity 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 number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. — Jeremy Bernstein Copy Share Image
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
If you pass a lot of data through a teeny network, like 20 neurons, it'll do what it can, but it's not… — Jeff Dean 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
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris 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
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
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine… — Diane Ackerman 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
The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal… — Sallie Tisdale 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
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around… — Scott Westerfeld 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
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
There is a neuron in your brain that will respond only to pictures of Jennifer Aniston - provided you have had prior… — John Medina 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
In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“We haven’t got that kind of time. All we have is mind and mind, that slate of neurons for which the skull… — Vanessa Place 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
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,… — Steven Johnson 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
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
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
