Adapted Quote by Lars Leksell

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

— James Nesbitt

In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

— Malcolm Gladwell

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required…

— Atul Gawande

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

— Benjamin Carson

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

— Charlie Munger

'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most…

— Michael J. Fox

“People sometimes ask what it’s like to be a surgeon who works with the living human brain each day. I think sometimes it’s like…

— Peter Black

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain.…

— Gertrude Jekyll

In my experience, surgeons tend to need boatloads of attention.

— Ann Patchett

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

— John Powell

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

— Sebastian Seung