Quotes About The Cerebral Cortex

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Carl Sagan

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Every desire has a relation to madness.

Luce Irigaray

#9. 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

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

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#11. Crap. He was actually crying. I didn't know how to deal with a crying father. I barely knew how to deal with a normal one.

Rachel Vincent

#12. 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

#13. O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#14. Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

Joseph Campbell

#15. 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

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

Sam Lipsyte

#17. 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

#18. The baby is a different person

Jeremy Vine

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

Helen Fisher