Stretch Receptors

Famous quotes containing the words stretch and/or receptors:

    “I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope,
    And gather dust and chaff, and call
    To what I feel is Lord of all,
    And faintly trust the larger hope.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)