Nerve Quotes

386 quotes by 329 authors

The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it… — Tim Green
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that… — Wilder Penfield
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,… — Steven Rose
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
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult… — H. Bentley Glass
The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight. — Mary Everest Boole
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… — Charles Scott Sherrington
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or… — Howard Thurman
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more… — Amy Bloom
The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced… — George W. Bush
No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I'll… — Lauren Bacall
The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it. — Jackie Vernon
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. — Philip Doddridge
The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic. — Geoffrey Brooke
When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will… — Charles Spurgeon
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
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
Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and… — Colin Thubron
War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a… — Kate Forsyth

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