Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Oh, love is very much a physical thing… I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they… — Roger Wolcott Sperry 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 brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that… — William Allman Copy Share Image
There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are… — Tim Berners-Lee 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
“even while it’s true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons—as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms… — David Eagleman 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
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original… — Susannah Cahalan 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
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
“astrocytes, and Myron’s discus thrower was using his neurons. For the astrocyte to be the root of thought, it must be able… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“During the twentieth century, neuroscientists and psychologists also came to more fully appreciate the astounding complexity of the human brain. Inside our… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“Concepts of memory tend to reflect the technology of the times. Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a… — Gregory Bateson 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. — Diane Ackerman 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 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
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
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“They are part of the nervous system because of the role calcium has in the working of neurons, and they are part… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
