Carl Sagan

Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

American Scientist

Patti Smith

More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

American Musician

Gretchen Rubin

Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.

American Author

Indya Moore

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

American Actor

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

American Philosopher

Gustav Mahler

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Austrian Composer

Alexander Hamilton

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

American Politician

Rabindranath Tagore

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Indian Poet

George Packer

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

American Novelist

Douglas Coupland

If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.

Canadian Author

The 'impulse' to act stems from a sudden emotion rather than careful thought.

Emotion origin

'Impulse' often refers to a temporary desire that might quickly pass.

Temporary feeling

Acting on 'impulse' means doing something unplanned.

Acting without plan

In physics, 'impulse' is a specific concept, influenced by force and time.

Physics application

Understanding 'impulse' in physics often involves mathematical calculations.

Math in context

'Impulse' can mean a brief burst of electricity in electronic systems.

Technical signal

'Impulse' in electronics is associated with speed and precision.

Association

An 'impulse' may be a fleeting urge to do something enjoyable or unusual.

Sudden desire

Giving in to an 'impulse' often involves satisfying an immediate craving.

Yielding to temptation

 and with the important idea of the brain as a prediction engine. Imagine being a brain. You're locked inside a bony skull, trying to figure what's out there in the world. There's no lights inside the skull. There's no sound either. All you've got to go on is streams of electrical impulses

Your brain hallucinates...

 and munged them together in a way that no one really intended. And yet, this is also the way that we're building the entire world. We're taking all of this data, a lot of it bad data, a lot of historical data full of prejudice, full of all of our worst impulses of history,

The nightmare videos of...

 you probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase. And that's okay. But occasionally, just occasionally, I hope you will open up your suitcases for other people to see, because the world needs you and it needs the things you carry.

The power of introverts...

 in the universe carbon the quintessential connector and linchpin of life sodium the silvery white metal that's a key player in our body's ability to fire nerve impulses every element like the women who wear them plays an important role in shaping our

How design can help make...

 you guessed it, a good night's sleep. Sleep is composed of four stages, the deepest of which are known as slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement. EEG machines monitoring people during these stages have shown electrical impulses

The benefits of a good...

 I realized that now I needed to learn. I needed to listen. This has been at the front of my mind lately, because I can't help but see in our public discourse so many of the same destructive impulses that ruled my former church.

I grew up in the...

 for the millions of people living and dying with dementia. Primal sensorial delights that say the things we don't have words for, impulses that make us stay present -- no need for a past or a future.

What really matters at...

 She risks being eaten in order to save her kin, and that's the key. Kin selection is that genetic impulse for self-sacrifice prevalent throughout the kingdoms of life, even us. Skeptical?

Shadows of Forgotten...

 a neurotransmitter that communicates between brain structures and helps regulate vital processes, such as mood, aggression, impulse control, sleep, appetite, body temperature and pain.

Debunking the myths of...

 impulses that are generated by all living things down to just five billions of a vote so it's hardly surprising that sharks are among the most successful predators in the ocean