"Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where……" — Charles Scott Sherrington
"Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one."
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Charles Scott Sherrington
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14 Quotes by Charles Scott Sherrington
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Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and…
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If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more…
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He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal…
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As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross…
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The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's…
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This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual,…
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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it…
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That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to…
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The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve…
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With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined…
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Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the…
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That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than…
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
— Kate Atkinson
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
— Unknown Author
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
— Bob Goodlatte
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
— Charlotte Mason
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
— Ronald Reagan
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