David H. Hubel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.
-- David H. Hubel

#Law #Cells #Brain
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

#Brain #Mind #Giants
Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.
-- David H. Hubel

#Science #Thinking #Numbers
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

#Shoes #Needs #Want

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Labor is the law of happiness.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
You should employ your little grey cells
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

David H. Hubel famous quotes

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