Nervous System Quotes
140 Nervous System quotes by 101 unique authors
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Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we…
— David Foreman
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All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my…
— R. U. Sirius
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In…
— Timothy Leary
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The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
— George Lois
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Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
— Learned Hand
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Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,…
— Douglas Engelbart
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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into…
— Arthur Koestler
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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of…
— Tara Brach
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The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table,…
— Unknown Author
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It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
— Eric Kandel
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our…
— Murray Bookchin
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Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries,…
— Unknown Author
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It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my…
— Andy Partridge
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Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and…
— John C. Lilly
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Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the primary cell of…
— Jill Bolte Taylor
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If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and…
— Frederick Law Olmsted
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The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in…
— Michael Merzenich
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Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and…
— Mike Seabrook
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We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated…
— Alan Watts
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I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries…
— Elon Musk
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The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,…
— Tennessee Williams
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Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
Who Wrote These Nervous System Quotes
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