"There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe."

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Source : "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#Numbers Quotes #People Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.”
“I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think.”

Source : Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.28, North Atlantic Books
“Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.”
“I love bows, â€¦ And I feel some couture pots coming on.”
“I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.”
“That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.”
“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.”

Source : 1822 The Night Before Christmas.
“I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.”

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