Neuroscience Quote by Henry Hallett Dale

“Given the power of modern molecular techniques, it is easy to forget that the ultimate objective of physiological discoveries is to find their possible…

— Oné R. Pagán

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the…

— Leni Zumas

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

“neurotransmitters, a paramecium”

— Robert J. Sawyer

“Knowledge emerged about synapses, neurotransmitter-ology was born, and this idea was modified—a new memory requires the formation of a new synapse, a new connection…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

— Anonymous

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

— Joy Harjo

“astrocytes, and Myron’s discus thrower was using his neurons. For the astrocyte to be the root of thought, it must be able to process…

— Andrew Koob

“know about the brain's hardware and software. How does the firing of a nerve or a series of nerves get translated into a thought…

— David D. Burns

“Little is known about the physiological properties of glial cells in the vertebrate central nervous system.” In fact, in 1966, absolutely”

— Andrew Koob

“infinite points of feeling for every nerve ending in my body”

— Tahereh Mafi

Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the…

— Gerald Edelman