"This integrative action in virtue of which the……" — Charles Scott Sherrington
"This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us."
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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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Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never…
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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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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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