As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.

That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

Log Log Log (x) goes off to infinity with x, but has never been observed to do so.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.