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John Eccles Quotes

Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.

John Eccles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: australian
Birth: January 27, 1903 - May 2, 1997

Topics

Changes Concentration Composition

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Maya Angelou

Good Wine Party Play Chili Serve

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

John Ross Bowie

Time Theatre Go Line Bottom Intense

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Robert Fisk

Life Great Loneliness Depression Tea

The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.

Rusty Schweickart

Space Environment Earth More Surface

I didn't like horses when I was a kid.

Mary Gaitskill

Kid Like Horses

I am actually a resident of three worlds - of America, of India, and of Africa. I live in Uganda most of the year. It's extraordinary to have that worldview that is an expansive one rather than just looking at the world from where you sit.

Mira Nair

Live I Am World Looking Year You

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

Lucien Bourjeily

You Sometimes Censorship Used Get

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

Lucy Powell

Border Impact Seem Make North Any

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son.

Judy Collins

Life Son Men Me Husband My Life

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Joseph O'Neill

Love Feel You Romance Where Books

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Bodhidharma

Success Failure Mind Depend Nor

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

Experience Words Mature Cannot Our