All Santiago Ramon y Cajal Quotes
- Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,… All
- As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery. Brain
- The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. Brain
- Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. Becomes
- To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel… Ascertaining
- In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed,… Acquired
- Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the… Act
- 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… Amazed
- 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 our… Heaven
- Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes,… Attention
- In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. Adult
- Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered… All
- Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years… Achieved
- If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far… Allow
- Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind. Awe
- That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. Admitted
- Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous… Arduous
- Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme. Business
- If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. ... Like the… Appear