Noun
the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells
Source: WordNetMy advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. Timothy Leary
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. William James
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. George Orwell
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system. John von Neumann
We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first. Julian Jaynes
The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself. William James