A rainbow every morning who would pause to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon taken for granted. Th at is practical enough. It allows us to get on with life. But it… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth. — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
“We have, because human, an inalienable prerogative of responsibility which we cannot devolve, no, not as once was thought, even upon the stars. We… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
A rainbow every morning who would pause to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon taken for granted. Th at is practical enough. It allows us to get on with life. But it may stultify if it cannot on occasion be thrown off . To recapture now and then childhood’s wonder, is to… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share
If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord. — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
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