The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To-day the dictum must be modified to admit that, often, to refrain from… — 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… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
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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