“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth. It is true to say… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
“consider the possibility that any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share
I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
“It is fair to say that, in general, no problems have been exhausted; instead, men have been exhausted by the problems” — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share
