Hubel Quotes

#1. In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

Torsten Wiesel

#2. Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

David H. Hubel

#3. It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.

Dave Eggers

#4. I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about ... those are always the wrong choices.

Michelle Williams

#5. I woke to the smell of fresh coffee. Yum. You can stay forever.

Deanna Chase

#6. My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

Alfonso Soriano

#7. We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on.

David H. Hubel

#8. The fragrance of rain mixes with the smell of old books. It is heavenly - that combination of threat and safety.

Trudy Wallis

#9. I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.

Steven Gerrard

#10. Every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line.

Jim Butcher

#11. When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Lori Lansens

#12. I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

Denise Duhamel

#13. Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?

David H. Hubel

#14. Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence ... Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

William Ellery Channing