"This book is not for the engineer content with hardware, nor for the biologist uneasy outside his specialty; for it d…"

"Don't bite my finger, look where I am pointing."

"You have to have the facts before you can pervert them."

"Because of the "all-or-none" character of nervous activity, events and the relations among them can be treated by mea…"

"We suppose that some axonal terminations cannot at first excite the succeeding neuron; but if at any time the neuron …"

"[1917 Winter] Rufus Jones called me in. "Warren," said he, "what is thee going to be?" And I said, "I don't know." "A…"

"My object, as a psychologist, was to invent a kind of least psychic event, or "psychon," that would have the followin…"

"I met Walter Pitts, then in his teens, who promptly set me right in matters of theory. It is to him that I am princip…"

"With all of these limitations and hazards well in mind, let us ask whether a knower so conceived is capable of constr…"

"No more would I go along with Plato in exiling the poets, who play on the limbic cortex. Not even they are powerful e…"