Cortex Flat Quotes & Sayings

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves. — Yotam Ottolenghi

There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it. — Ray Kurzweil

And in his image, man created god — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It beat down on Ned's head, warm as blood and relentless as old guilts. — George R R Martin

It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war. — Chang-rae Lee

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful. — Leo Tolstoy

Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Bless you, daugher of man, — Richelle Mead

The snow wasn't deep - in many places its crust was firm enough that they actually walked on top of it - but the wind was surgical, a precision instrument with needles for teeth, and it found even the tiniest exposed places on her skin, attacking them. — Joe Schreiber

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you. — Bill Maris

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. — Evander Holyfield