"Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only……" — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
"Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors."
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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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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
— Andre Gide
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Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.
— Anne, Princess Royal
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
— Virginia Woolf
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I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that…
— Karch Kiraly
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces…
— L. Sprague de Camp
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Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.
— Wes Fesler
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There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was…
— Lance Armstrong
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I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
— Ovid
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Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the…
— James Madison
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If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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