I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood. — Becky Freeman Copy Share Image
I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-away and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
I'll just immediately automatically, without even thinking, check my phone. And it feels like the same little bit of my brain is… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You… — Raine Maida Copy Share Image
Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never… — Graham Foust Copy Share Image
“You have 100,000 times more synapses in your brain than sensory receptors in your body. Therefore, you are roughly 100,000 times better… — Roy Williams Copy Share Image
All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
“Nerve endings. That’s what it all comes down to. Billions of rooted synapses, like trees entwined in erratic soil. Lightning strikes every… — Ryan Galloway Copy Share Image
The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado Copy Share Image
When you go to Africa and you see people who are just like you and me - this is always my starting… — Michael Elliott Copy Share Image
I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and… — Ron Currie Jr 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
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
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening.… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion… — Tim Green Copy Share Image
It’s okay if no one believes like you, all experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can’t think like you,… — Tanya Davis Copy Share Image
I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night.… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy-how that was all that love was-ions connecting across synapses of time and… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
