A Quote by Francis Daniels Moore

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

Francis Daniels Moore

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Francis Daniels Moore
American - Surgeon
April 17, 1913 - November 24, 2001

Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

Martiros Saryan

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.

Charlaine Harris

My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.

Nick Frost

"You are so close." "To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents."

Thomas Pynchon

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Archibald Wheeler

I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.

John Buchan

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

Angela Davis

I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

Keri Hulme

If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

Chet Raymo

The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no obvious way of knowing where to start to understand what is actually happening, or what functions are taking place.

Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Roddy Doyle

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

James Theodore Bent

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

Salman Rushdie

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

Ayrton Senna

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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