Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of…

- Charles Scott Sherrington

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection…

- Charles Scott Sherrington

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curt…

- Charles Scott Sherrington

This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the pro…

- Charles Scott Sherrington

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex as the scratch-refle…

- Charles Scott Sherrington

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

- Charles Scott Sherrington

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

- Charles Scott Sherrington

With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmoni…

- Charles Scott Sherrington

The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To…

- Charles Scott Sherrington