Nikola Tesla Quotes

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

I have a great memory.

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.

We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Memory. My poison, my food.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.