Approach Quote by Wilder Penfield

“...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind...” quote by Wilder Penfield — Download Open image

“...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind...”

Wilder Penfield

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The brain has not explained the mind fully.

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The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

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The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

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Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.

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Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread…

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Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

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Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

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