Home / Quotes / Quote by Pierre Jean George Cabanis

Quote by Pierre Jean George Cabanis

“Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.”

Quote by Pierre Jean George Cabanis

Author

Pierre Jean George Cabanis

Pierre Jean George Cabanis, born on June 5, 1757, and died on May 5, 1808, was a French philosopher, physiologist, and psychologist. Limited information suggests that he was an influential figure in the fields of philosophy, physiology, and psychology during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. more

You May Also Like

“We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.”

Stills Secret Brain Divine Ingredients Dishes Elusive Sauce Banquets

Author:Macdonald Critchley

“More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.”

Mind May Has Beens Brain Psychology Decades Neuroscience

Author:Antonio Damasio

“The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe.”

Humans Lasts Lying Universe Brain Known Mines Structure Billions Cells Cosmos Internals Nerves Frontiers Skulls Human Brain

Author:Joel Davis

“The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals, enzymes, and humors which may be analyzed. Its structure is characterized by neurons, pathways, and synapses which may be examined directly when they are properly magnified.”

May Brain Materials Structure Touched Chemicals Entity Pathways Skulls Neurons Enzymes Synapses

Author:Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

“The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.”

Humans Earth Brain Mass Complexes Galaxy Human Brain

Author:Marian Diamond

“I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.”

I Can States Dream Form Imagination Memories Brain Materials Bases Our Dreams Assurance Experiences And Memories

Author:John Eccles

“A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.”

Men World Whole Facts Problem Certain Understanding Brain Fellows Whole World Fellow Man Comprehension

Author:John Eccles

“The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.”

Men Lasts Brain Performances

Author:John Eccles

“A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.”

Knows Age Brain Disease Majors Machines Function Foundation Insight Cures New Age Spawn Brain Function Brain Science

Author:Gerald Edelman

“The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.”

World Funny Contribution Sarcastic Chips Cuisine

Author:John Cleese