"Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried……" — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
"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 of my life bent over my writing desk.""
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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19 Quotes by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
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As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also…
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The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.
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Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.
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To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of…
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In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the…
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Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and…
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of…
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The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as…
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Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells…
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In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
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Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider…
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it,…
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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