"Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies,……" — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
"Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind."
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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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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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