Fibres Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo
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
Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,â€”but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
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
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
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
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

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