Charles Scott SherringtonThat 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 surp… ▶373Life
Charles Scott SherringtonFurther study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic m… ▶366Philosophy
Charles Scott SherringtonThe terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.358Death
Charles Scott SherringtonSwiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one... ✨ … ▶358Philosophy
Charles Scott SherringtonThe brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To-day the dictum must be modifi… ▶306LifeThought
Charles Scott SherringtonIf it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with… ▶233Thought
Charles Scott SherringtonThis integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us. ✨ The In… ▶278Reading
Charles Scott SherringtonHe solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.141Thought
Charles Scott SherringtonWith the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions which in their seq… ▶175Humor
Charles Scott SherringtonNatural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.1610Truth
Charles Scott SherringtonAs followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.1310ThoughtTime
