Nervous System Quotes - Page 7

• For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos have no nervous system. But that's not an issue discussed publicly. The issue is, Are they human? If you are an absolutist moralist, you say, "These cells are human, and therefore they deserve some kind of special moral treatment."

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Issues, Suffering

  Source: inters.org

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• The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it's the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It's the only experience that utilizes the full brain.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Sleep, Unique

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Cualquier intento de reducir las complejas propiedades de los organismos biológicos o de los sistemas nerviosos o de los cerebros humanos a simples sistemas físicos y químicos es insensato.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Simple, Brain, Nervous

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• Hoy en día, cualquier niño puede explicar el vuelo humano de forma mecánica: " ... y para subir se empuja el acelerador hasta el fondo y se tira un poco hacia atrás del mando. ... "Es como explicar la música diciendo que cuanto más a la derecha golpees el piano, más alto sonará. Los ingredientes de un vuelo no están en las palancas, las ruedas y los pedales, sino en el sistema nervioso del piloto: sensaciones físicas, fragmentos de libros de texto, instintos profundamente arraigados, recuerdos infantiles de problemas en el aire, conversaciones de hangar...".

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Children, Memories, Boys

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• Por supuesto que no puedes liberarte de las leyes de la naturaleza; pero las leyes de los sistemas nerviosos no son las mismas que las leyes físicas.

  Mario Bunge

  Law, Free Yourself, Nervous

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is very important but... not as important as we believe. Most of the important things that we do don't depend on memory. To hear, to see, to touch, to feel happiness and pain; these are functions which are independent of memory; it is an a priori thing. Thus, for me, what memory does is to modify that a priori thing, and this it does in a very profound way.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Memories, Pain, Believe

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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• Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Men, Epidemics, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner (2013). “The Essential Rudolf Steiner”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

  Francis Bacon

  Perfection, Trying, Nervous

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• There are many levels of organization in nervous systems. Hence we aim to explain mechanisms at one level in terms of properties and dynamics at a lower level, and to fit that in with the properties at the higher levels.

  Patricia Churchland

  Organization, Levels, Dynamics

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Water, Hot, Cold

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.

  George Harrison

  People, Giving, Nervous

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• If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.

  Robert Trivers

  Strong, Communication, Animal

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• Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.

  Champfleury

  Cat, Artist, Delicacy

  Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”

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• Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Strong, Games, Quality

  "Big Think Interview with Anatoly Karpov". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. May 17, 2010.

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• No hace ni cuarenta años, en Harvard, entré en una cámara anecoica [totalmente silenciosa] sin esperar oír dos sonidos: uno agudo, el de mi sistema nervioso en funcionamiento, y otro grave, el de mi sangre en circulación. La razón por la que no esperaba oír esos dos sonidos era que se habían puesto en vibración sin ninguna intención por mi parte. Esa experiencia dio dirección a mi vida, la exploración de la no intención. Nadie más lo hacía. Yo lo haría por nosotros. No supe inmediatamente lo que hacía, ni, después de todos estos años, he averiguado gran cosa. Compongo música.

  John Cage

  Blood, Years, Two

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• Las alucinaciones, los delirios y los arrebatos inducidos químicamente pueden ser aterradores o maravillosamente gratificantes; en cualquier caso, tienen el carácter de trucos de confianza jugados con el propio sistema nervioso.

  Arthur Koestler

  May, Hallucinations, Nervous

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  War, Creativity, Media

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.18, New World Library

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• There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

  Sax Rohmer

  Tolls, Anticipation, Nervous

  Sax Rohmer (2013). “The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• El primer golpe al sistema nervioso es el que más me interesa, porque creo que si golpeas emocionalmente al lector, éste no puede garantizar las lecciones que le gustaría aprender.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Thinking, Guarantees, Lessons

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Years, Age

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Effort, World

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• La personalidad del niño es producto de un lento crecimiento gradual. Su sistema nervioso madura por etapas y secuencias naturales. Se sienta antes de ponerse de pie; balbucea antes de hablar; inventa antes de decir la verdad; dibuja un círculo antes de trazar un cuadrado; es egoísta antes de ser altruista; depende de los demás antes de lograr depender de sí mismo. Todas sus capacidades, incluida su moral, están sujetas a leyes de crecimiento. La tarea del cuidado infantil no consiste en forzarle a seguir un patrón predeterminado, sino en guiar su crecimiento.

  Arnold Gesell

  Bebé, Niños, Egoísta

  Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”

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• Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

  Francis Bacon

  Communication, Long, Brain

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Order, Desire

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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• Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

  Francis Bacon

  Patterns, Painting, Canvas

  Sir John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (1967). “Bacon”

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