Cerebral Cortex Quotes

#1. Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

Helen Fisher

#2. It's also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone's cerebral cortex, but welcome to my life.

Ashley Poston

#3. For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.

Bill Keller

#4. Words are a big deal to me. I'm verbal and visual and I'm always struggling to find a way to smash those two parts of my cerebral cortex together. Sometimes it works, sometimes it feels mentally disjunctive.

Arthur Jones

#5. The human race is just getting started ... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.

Ellen Gilchrist

#6. The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

Ray Kurzweil

#7. My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.

Floyd Skloot

#8. Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams are not just functions of the cerebral cortex.

Frederick Lenz

#9. A tinge of panic tingled his cerebral cortex as he recalled the last greeting he had had in this country, which was not so welcoming.

Kenneth Eade

#10. Our primate ancestors was the development of a larger cerebral cortex as well as the development of increased volume of gray-matter tissue in certain regions of the brain.32 This change occurred, however, on the very slow timescale of biological evolution and still involves an inherent

Ray Kurzweil

#11. Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.

Sam Lipsyte

#12. To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.

Thomm Quackenbush

#13. Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

Carl Sagan

#14. The minds of others are stranger depths to employ our hearts to than our own wonderland of cerebral cortex.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#15. My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?

Ricardo Sanchez

#16. You'll come with me." "Okay." Anywhere he said, I'd go. "Good.

Laurelin Paige

#17. Uh-huh. Now Ali was beginning to get the picture. Riding backseat on a bike like Phantom was better than Mr. Blue any day. Not to mention the highly erotic act of wrapping one's legs around the man you loved.

Julie Ann Walker

#18. Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

Emily Oster

#19. The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.

Jesse Owens

#20. Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Bill Watterson

#21. People don't need careers. People should just exist.

Elizabeth Olsen

#22. I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

Nik Wallenda

#23. There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Erich Fromm

#24. Everything is an art, which must be mastered.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

Thomas Carlyle

#26. We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#27. No one really understands quantum mechanics.

Richard P. Feynman