"It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Patricia Churchland

#Brain Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes

“I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.”
“As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.”
“If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".”

Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, pp. 76-77, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.
“Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.”
“Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.”
“Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.”
“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar...”
“You are a GODDESS when you leave the salon”

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