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  • Neurons that fire together wire together. -- Donald O. Hebb
  • Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones. -- Julian Baggini
  • 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 the known universe. -- Michio Kaku
  • Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city. -- David Eagleman
  • 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 A and B. -- Gregory Bateson
  • 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 single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. -- David Eagleman
  • 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 realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer. -- Robert Lanza
  • When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. -- Meg Rosoff
  • If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once. -- Hollis Frampton
  • We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not. -- Rodolfo Llinas
  • The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die. -- Lisa Genova
  • Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums -- Robin Williams
  • We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. -- Stephen Hawking
  • A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. -- Jackie French
  • Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. -- Diane Ackerman
  • With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system. -- Miguel Nicolelis
  • 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
  • Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them. -- Justin Rosenstein
  • Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism. -- Feng Zhang
  • Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons. -- David Perlmutter
  • Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons. -- Miguel Nicolelis
  • An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain? -- Dee Hock
  • The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal. -- Feng Zhang
  • In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents. -- Stanislaw Ulam
  • The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it. -- William Allman
  • We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept. -- E. O. Wilson
  • There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected. -- Tim Berners-Lee
  • 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 nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food. -- Frans de Waal
  • One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad' takes you on a fast-paced trip down a tunnel filled with lights and a shifting list of rules to keep your neurons nimble. -- Rob Manuel
  • Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness. -- Carl Zimmer
  • There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies. -- Miguel Nicolelis
  • The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality. -- Alan Moore
  • The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals, enzymes, and humors which may be analyzed. Its structure is characterized by neurons, pathways, and synapses which may be examined directly when they are properly magnified. -- Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
  • 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 of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings. -- Alan Lightman
  • 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 that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you. -- Scott Westerfeld
  • Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and neuroscientists still argue whether specific types of neurons are unique to humans. But there is no disputing that neurons are only about 10 percent of the cells in the human brain. -- Thomas R. Insel
  • I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it. -- A. S. Byatt
  • I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. -- Tom Stoppard
  • 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 brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it. -- Charles Krauthammer
  • The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. -- Francis Collins
  • Mirror neurons make human empathy possible. -- Nick Morgan
  • You're nothing but a pack of neurons. -- Francis Crick
  • Leaders stimulate mirror neurons of the led. -- Junaid e Mustafa
  • A leader stimulates mirror neurons of the led. -- Junaid e Mustafa
  • I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic. -- Nenia Campbell
  • The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer... -- Jeremy Bernstein
  • Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. -- Don DeLillo
  • The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. -- Gerald Fischbach
  • Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana. -- Sara Genn
  • What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent. -- Jose Ferreira
  • Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us. -- Susanna Kaysen
  • Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • 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 show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course. -- Natalie Angier
  • Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain. -- Feng Zhang
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