How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.
From John Eccles
The body and dendrites of a nerve cell are specialized for the reception and integration of information which is conveyed as impulses that are fired from other nerve cells along their axons.
Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.
We and our fellow men of all countries must realize that we share this wonderful, beautiful, salubrious earth as brothers and that there never will be anywhere else to go.
The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.
I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.
A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.
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