Quote by Andrew Koob

“Little is known about the physiological properties of glial cells in the vertebrate central nervous system.” In fact, in 1966, absolutely”

— Andrew Koob

“Astonishingly little has been researched on glia until the twenty-first century.”

— Andrew Koob

“huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in…

— Thomas R. Insel

“The leech is more developed than the flatworm, with one glial cell for every 30 neurons, and the glial cells occupying 51 percent of…

— Andrew Koob

“...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“As David Eagleman describes it in his wonderful book Incognito: Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia—hundreds of billions of them.…

— Ray Dalio

“There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and…

— Joseph Heller

“the fetal brain generates far more neurons than are found in the adult.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Glial cells include Schwann cells, Müller cells, epithelial cells, ependymal cells, oligodendricytes, tanycytes, microglia, and astrocytes—all function as differently from each other as they…

— Andrew Koob

“The brain’s total number of connections rivals the stars and galaxies of the universe.”

— Paul W. Brand

“strange evolution, that people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves”

— Dave Matthews Band