A structure made up of fine threads, so many and so fine that even the strongest magnification of the microscope was hardly sufficient to allow all of them to be seen clearly. Some of the threads ran together in bundles and in layers in specific directions; others lay seemingly randomly distributed every which way through the tissue. Embedded in this felted mass of fibers, it was possible to discern spherical structures, the nuclei of the nerve cells...


Braitenberg (1948), quoted in: Elke Maier (2012) "Spying on God" in Max Planck Research, March 2012

Valentino Braitenberg Quotes

A structure made up of fine threads, so many and so fine that even the strongest magnification of the microscope was hardly sufficient to allow all...

A structure made up of fine threads, so many and so fine that even the strongest magnification of the microscope was hardly sufficient to allow all...

A structure made up of fine threads, so many and so fine that even the strongest magnification of the microscope was hardly sufficient to allow all...

A structure made up of fine threads, so many and so fine that even the strongest magnification of the microscope was hardly sufficient to allow all...