John Eccles Quotes

#1. Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

John Eccles

#2. Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

John Eccles

#4. To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

John Eccles

#5. 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.

John Eccles

#6. I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

John Eccles

#7. Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein's memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author's journey to reclaim - and celebrate - that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.

Mira Bartok

#8. It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

Robert Downey Jr.

#9. Many people, including myself, had our scientific lives changed by the inspiring new vision of science that Popper gave us.

John Eccles

#10. Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.

John Eccles

#11. I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

John Eccles

#12. 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.

John Eccles

#13. It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

Vijay Seshadri

#14. A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

John Eccles

#15. Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.

Will Rogers

#16. You came to us a lump of clay, and we molded you into an instrument of Death.

Robin LaFevers

#17. England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.

John Eccles

#18. I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

Tamara Ecclestone

#19. 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.

John Eccles

#20. I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.

John Eccles

#21. The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

John Eccles

#22. In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

John Eccles

#23. To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

John Eccles

#24. I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

John Eccles

#25. I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

John Eccles

#26. 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.

John Eccles

#27. I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

John Eccles

#28. But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.

John Hutton

#29. Yeah, but I don't know. There is something about the tragic stories of Shakespeare. It's as if we all know how it will end, but the adventure makes it worth it.

Brittainy C. Cherry