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• Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes…
• As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a…
• The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.
• Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.
• To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in…
• In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation…
• Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire…
• In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)…
• The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent…
• Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate…
• In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
• Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything…

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