Fibres Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and…
— Nicolas Steno
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The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back.…
— Colin Blakemore
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That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition…
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
— Victor Hugo
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy…
— Oscar Wilde
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Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our…
— George Eliot
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself…
— Oscar Wilde
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Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened…
— William George Jordan
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Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave…
— William Faulkner
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on…
— Archibald Hill
Who Wrote These Fibres Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Fibres Quotes as follows: