John Eccles
John Eccles
Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAwas an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 January 1903
CountryAustralia
devoted forms higher life study
I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.
darwinian realise
I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
altering concentration effected external readily
Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.
devote medical study
I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.
existence explain human
I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
ultimate
Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.
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A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.
changed gave including inspiring lives science
Many people, including myself, had our scientific lives changed by the inspiring new vision of science that Popper gave us.
along conveyed impulses information nerve reception
The body and dendrites of a nerve cell are specialized for the reception and integration of information which is conveyed as impulses that are fired from other nerve cells along their axons.
codes genetic origin stems
The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.
anywhere brothers countries fellow men realize share
We and our fellow men of all countries must realize that we share this wonderful, beautiful, salubrious earth as brothers and that there never will be anywhere else to go.
sleep self order
In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.
dream memories imagination
I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.
spiritual soul brain
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.