Nerve Cells Quotes

14 quotes by 12 authors

• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers… — William Allman
• The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than… — Joel Davis
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of… — Eric Kandel
• The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through… — Fritjof Capra
• In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free… — Mary Roach
• A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to… — Tony Hoare
• You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was… — Eric Kandel
• Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning. — Eric Kandel

Who Wrote These Nerve Cells Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 14 Nerve Cells Quotes as follows:

• 3 Nerve Cells Quotes by Eric Kandel
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by William Allman
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Joel Davis
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Tim Green
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Wilder Penfield
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Steven Rose
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by H. Bentley Glass
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Niels Kaj Jerne
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Edward Anthony Spitzka
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Fritjof Capra
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Mary Roach
• 1 Nerve Cells Quote by Tony Hoare