Stretch Receptors

Famous quotes containing the words stretch and/or receptors:

    “O but there is wisdom
    In what the sages said;
    But stretch that body for a while
    And lay down that head
    Till I have told the sages
    Where man is comforted.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)