"In my own view, some advice about what……" — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
"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, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic."
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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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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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Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
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