Colin Blakemore Quotes:
Ocupation: Professor
Life: b. June 1, 1944
Birthday: June 1
If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.
source: "Mechanics of the Mind". Book by Colin Blakemore, 1977.
topic: Moon, Men, Cells, The Moon And Back, Astonishing
