#nervous system

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#diego #going #guitar #had #how

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ↗

— Russell Hoban

#attack #attacked #being #chance #got

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nervous #nervous system #oils #only #sustain

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#automatic #basis #decisions #devices #fundamentally

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#bodily #character #conscious #having #large

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ↗

— Ingrid Newkirk

#boy #central #comes #dog #feel

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds