Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba—outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another—before… — Santiago Ramon 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 Image
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
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 Image
Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
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 Image
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed and confounded by the supreme constructive ingenuity revealed not only in the retina and in the dioptric apparatus of the vertebrates but even in the…” quote by Santiago Ramon y Cajal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/42d/santiago-ramon-y-cajal-17256_amazed_in-the-study-of-this-membrane-the-retina_1148128.jpg)