When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A's efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased.

It is not possible to predict from a knowledge of the strength of a man's drives or from the level of his anxiety what he will do.

The work that we have done at McGill University began, actually, with the problem of brainwashing. We were not permitted to say so in the first publishing.

The brain functions on its own; we know that without sensory input it produces something which we call dreams or hallucinations.

Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

-- Pythagoras

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.

-- Hypatia

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

-- Hypatia

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius

Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.

-- Xunzi