Charles Scott Sherrington - Man on His Nature (1940)

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A rainbow every morning who would pause
to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon taken for granted. Th at is practical enough. It allows us to get on with life. But it may stultify if it
cannot on occasion be thrown off. To recapture now and then childhood's wonder, is to secure a driving force
for occasional grown-up thoughts.

Charles Scott Sherrington
The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head-mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one.

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
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 its 'values', Truth.

Charles Scott Sherrington
Nature, often as she hugs the old, seems seldom or never to revert to a past once abandoned.... Evolution can scrap but not revive.

Charles Scott Sherrington
A grey rock, said Ruskin, is a good sitter. That is one type of behavior. A darting dragon-fly is another type of behavior. We call the one alive, the other not. But both are fundamentally balances of give and take of motion with their surround. To make "life" a distinction between them is at root to treat them both artificially.

Charles Scott Sherrington