Quotes About Transmission

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

It is a common saying that a letter is a dead messenger; for it can give no more than it hath. And no letter is written so exactly, that there is nothing lacking.

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

He wrote them in two tables of stone, that they might be preserved from corruption, and might be transmitted pure and entire to posterity, for whose use they were intended, as well as for the present generation. These

By the mid-1960s, students at Zen Center called their teacher Suzuki-roshi. The title roshi traditionally was accorded only to a few venerable Zen masters in Japan; however, in the West, it became customary to refer to all Zen teachers who receive Transmission as roshis.

Suzuki-roshi's historic Transmission of the dharma to one and only one American man haunts everything that ever happened at Zen Center.

What are the odds that a killer flu virus will spread around the world like a tidal wave, killing millions? "The burning question is, will there be a human influenza pandemic," Secretary Leavitt told reporters. "On behalf of the WHO, I can tell you that there will be. The only question is the virulence and rapidity of transmission from human to human.

Influenza transmission is legendary. The dying cells in the respiratory tract trigger an inflammatory response, which triggers the cough reflex. The virus thus uses the body's own defenses to infect other potential hosts.

With so many different coronaviruses circulating among so many different species, it is considered likely a matter of when, not if, the next recombinant coronavirus will emerge and burst into the human population.119

I listen to the line as it disconnects, to the last wave of electricity as it pulses from Maine to the Hoosier State, from her to me, and then wait for the thick silence that flows behind it.

when the science community shuts its collective mind to what Mother Nature might do because it's just too scary to contemplate, as some have done with Ebola virus transmission, we surely won't be better prepared for the next biologic curveball, whatever it happens to be.

From that information, they were able to re-create the virus and then put it into ferrets (a good animal model for human influenza infection) to understand how easily it could transmit, how it causes illness, and its severity.

What little private tutoring I'd done, to raise my standard of living, soon convinced me that the transmission of knowledge was generally impossible, the variance of intelligence extreme, and that nothing could undo or even mitigate this basic inequality.

De modo que llegó una época, quizá, en la que para algunas especies el ritmo al que aumentaba el aprendizaje alcanzó una pendiente tal que, de repente, ocurrió una cosa completamente nueva; un animal podía aprender cosas, transmitirlas a otro y a otro con la suficiente rapidez para que no se perdieran para la especie. Así fue posible una acumulación de saber de la especie. A veces a esto se le ha llamado enlazar el tiempo.

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

Silence does not mean remaining silent both in speech and on paper. You can keep your mouth shut while communicating thousands of words to the universe.

This makes the rather obvious logical mistake analogous to that of a soldier who, receiving orders through the mail, concludes that the letter carrier is his commanding officer. Those who transmit, collect and distribute the message are not in the same league as those who write it in the first place.

And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration.

Introduce an alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla resistance. Here is ideology, pure if not serene.

Radio, of course, is the least likely medium to join in the descent into a Huxleyan world of technological narcotics. It is, after all, particularly well suited to the transmission of rational, complex language. Nonetheless, and even if we disregard radio's captivation by the music industry, we appear to be left with the chilling fact that such language as radio allows us to hear is increasingly primitive, fragmented, and largely aimed at invoking a visceral response;

Man transmits ideas to the subconscious through his feelings. The subconscious transmits ideas from mind to mind through telepathy. Your unexpressed convictions are transmitted to them without their conscious knowledge or consent, and if subsconsciously accepted by them will influence their behaviour.