Wilder Penfield Quotes

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• It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.
• The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
• Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that…
• My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain…
• Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!
• The brain has not explained the mind fully.
• Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.
• The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
• Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.
• Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest…
• ...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach…

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