We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.
No lens is quick enough to track the movement of the human body. The molecules are always moving.
I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.
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