Gordon Shepherd quotes

Gordon Shepherd quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an inscrutable complexity of form, extent, and relationships with each other.”
-- Gordon Shepherd

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“You should employ your little grey cells”
“If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long before him, with greater resourcefulness and much greater efficiency.”
“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
“But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.”
“Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped”
“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”
“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”
“Supply and demand regulate architectural form.”
“As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.”
“I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.”

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