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“Concepts of memory tend to reflect the technology of the times. Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets that could…

— Michael Specter

“Sometimes the dendrites leading into the nonsensory neuron are so plentiful that, under a microscope, they look very much like a richly branched coral,…

— Wendy Williams

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

— Don DeLillo

“I dismiss the pachyderms and the asses in favor of my axons and dendrites.”

— Laren Grey Umphlett

“During the twentieth century, neuroscientists and psychologists also came to more fully appreciate the astounding complexity of the human brain. Inside our skulls, they…

— Nicholas Carr

“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in…

— Ashim Shanker

When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around…

— Ron Currie Jr

It’s okay if no one believes like you, all experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can’t think like you, for this…

— Tanya Davis

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't explain.

— Apollo Robbins

“Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-away and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“Nerve endings. That’s what it all comes down to. Billions of rooted synapses, like trees entwined in erratic soil. Lightning strikes every millionth of…

— Ryan Galloway