Best Spinal Cord Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No one can ever use his heart to listen or touch or feel or see or smell. It's just a lump of muscle pumping mechanically inside your ribs. It has no will and no ability to do anything but go on pumping until it gives up and withers away or is choked by some disease. Your spinal cord, on the other hand, feels. The central nervous system pours out from the spinal cord, and with it one feels pain. Pain is the most trustworthy sensation a human being can know because it teaches us what hurts. With the spinal cord, one can hear what will hurt, smell the sting of suffering, taste it, feel it, and see the world with new eyes. I learned a long time ago not to follow my heart, the hunk of meat flexing in the chest. I trust the tube locked up in a column of bone, the tube that shows me what pain is.”

Heart Pain Spinal Cord

Book:The Spinal Cord Perception

Source: The Spinal Cord Perception

“He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will spark in the fullness of time into the conflagration that Frank will go overseas to cover for Reuters, the pieces of a pattern drifting closer together.”

Source: Station Eleven

“Through systematic meditation one can awaken the third eye and touch the cosmic awareness. Sushumna nadi is the subtle pathway in the spinal cord which passes through the main psychic centers. The awakening of these centers means a gradual expansion of awareness, until it reaches the cosmic awareness. Each center has its own beauty and gracefulness. Through generations of ignorance and unconsciousness, this channel of awareness becomes obscured and hidden. Meditation is to become aware about this internal life energy. Meditation is the procedure to rearrange, harmonize, activate, and integrate the individual life energy with the cosmic life energy.”

Meditation Chakra Chakras Third Eye Spinal Cord Chakra Awareness Cosmic Awareness Psyhic Centers Sushumna Nadi

Book:Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“How is regeneration of the spinal cord in the salamander related to its initial development ? There is now evidence that in the salamander, the steps of progenitor cell-patterning and controlled neurogenesis that naturally regenerate a severed tail largely recapitulate the steps followed during early embryonic development to initially build the central nervous system. For example, ependymal cells are descendants of radial glial cells retained from the earliest developmental stages in regenerating vertebrates. The ependymal tube that gives rise to regenerated spinal cord following salamander tail amputation is very similar in appearance to the early structure of the neural tube of developing amniotes. But how does that recapitulation occur ? By using a transgenic axolotl that expresses green fluorescent proteins (GFPs), they further examined the regenerated spinal cord by replacing a segment of the spinal cord from a typical animal with a piece of the spinal cord from a GFP-expressing animal - that is, one with green fluorescent cells. They found that the implanted cells in the experimental animals regenerated a green spinal cord ! Thus, regeneration may be a more neural stem-cell like, or pluripotent, state as a response to injury.”

Regeneration Spinal Cord Axolotl Gfps

Book:Bioinspired Devices: Emulating Nature’s Assembly and Repair Process

Source: Bioinspired Devices: Emulating Nature’s Assembly and Repair Process

“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.”

“Even the clearest localization of pain in one area may, in fact, be originating from a distant area .... The reference of pain implies the existence of convergence of inputs within the spinal cord. This leads to the necessary involvement in central neural circuits in the simplest of peripheral disorders. It also leads to the possibility that the basic disorder is entirely central.”

May Facts Pain Existence Possibility Areas Therapy Injury Disorder Simplest Involvement Input Circuits Cords Convergence Spinal Cord

Author:Patrick David Wall

“I don't understand people who go to amusement parks. I spend most of my time trying NOT to be nauseous. 'Excuse me, could you strap me in upside down? I'd like to be as sick as humanly possible. I feel great today, I think I'll go down to Funland and snap my neck on the back of a ride. Honey, let's bring the kids, I want to give them a spinal cord injury for Christmas.'”

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Author:Dom Irrera

“Its been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.”

Knows Humans Would Be Brain Impact Cows Consuming Cords Spinal Cord

Author:Ann Veneman

“When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.”

Kind Able Dark Tough Accomplish Vulnerable Sense Of Humor Nails Freeze Amazing Things Cords Spinal Cord

Author:Robin Williams

“Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Severed spinal cords may be rejoined. Damaged organs may be rebuilt. Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality.”

May Dream Reality Brain Effects Disease Patient Cells Executives Organs Stem Researchers Cords Alzheimer Alzheimer's Stem Cell Spinal Cord Biotech

Author:George Woolf

“Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."”

Whole Kids Attitude Changed Like You Scratches Cords Spinal Cord

Author:Pat Benatar

“This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.”

“True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.”

“Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God.”

Heart Despite Injury Disorder Confidence In God Cords Psychiatric Amputation Spinal Cord Psychiatric Disorders Spinal Cord Injuries

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.”

Ends Spiritual Joy Water Lines Dark Sea Materials Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Sparks Thrill Cords Sustenance Spinal Cord Dark Water

Book:A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge

Source: A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge

“The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is merely that the data coming in from the eyes anchors the perception.”

Way Eye Differences Views Secret Brain Activity Perception Nervous Data Awake Anchors Input Nervous System Sensory Cords Central Nervous System Spinal Cord

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.”

Play Absolutes Permanent Injury Cords Instantaneous Spinal Cord Spinal Cord Injuries

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.”

Feels Children Might Interest Religious Moral Obvious Injury Metaphysics Blinded Cords Spinal Cord Spinal Cord Injuries

Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.”

Ability Politician Yellow Cords Proximity Jelly Spinal Cord

Author:Tariq Ali

“You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords." "Only for you.”

Tendencies Severe Cords Spinal Cord

Author:Darynda Jones

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

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

Brain Currents Nerves Strokes Cords Spinal Cord

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.”

“Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best researchers, clinicians and scientists to accelerate the translation of the most promising research into practical solutions. This commitment enables the ongoing leveraging of federal, provincial and private sector funds to allow Canadian SCI researchers to embark on a national and global collective journey towards making a difference in the lives of people with spinal cord injury and other disabilities.”

“Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.”

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”

“Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.”

“I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.”

Space Cords Arthritis Spinal Cord Spinal Cord Injuries

Author:Carrie Ann Inaba