Charles Scott Sherrington Quotes

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 27, 1857 - March 4, 1952

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If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

John Linder

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The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Jef Raskin

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I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.

Stephen Graham Jones

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I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

Steven Spielberg

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Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

Simon Beaufoy

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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Tom Stoppard

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Marvel just does things differently.

Michael Pena

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No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

Ludacris

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Congressional overseers and the public must be given appropriate insight into government activities as well as their legal rationale to ensure America's values are being upheld and our interests advanced.

Dianne Feinstein

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The bigger the bet, the better I played.

Bobby Riggs

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To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.

Anthony Newley

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I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep all the museums open until dawn. You can go and hang out in Versailles in the middle of the night and watch the sun come up.

Anna Wintour

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