Neurons Quotes

65 Neurons quotes by 53 unique authors

We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But,… — U.G. Krishnamurti
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the… — Ray Kurzweil
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love. — Deepak Chopra
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in… — Michio Kaku
It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's… — Daniel Dennett
Neurons that fire together wire together. — Donald O. Hebb
Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums — Robin Williams
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the… — Tony Judt
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons… — Gregory Bateson
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we… — Robert Lanza
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement… — Alan Lightman
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones. — Julian Baggini
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as… — David Eagleman
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
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as… — Sydney J. Harris
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a… — David Eagleman
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the… — Charles Krauthammer
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe. — Alan Moore
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed… — Frans de Waal
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way… — Scott Westerfeld
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons… — Susanna Kaysen
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution… — Greg Iles
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to… — Natalie Angier

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