Brain Quote by Wilder Penfield

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

— Wilder Penfield

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

— Wilder Penfield

Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to…

— Wilder Penfield

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

— Wilder Penfield

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

— Wilder Penfield

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not…

— Wilder Penfield

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

— Wilder Penfield

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

— Wilder Penfield

In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how…

— Wilder Penfield

My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the…

— Wilder Penfield

Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a…

— Wilder Penfield

“A neurosurgeon once told me about operating on the brain of a young man with epilepsy. As is customary in this kind of operation,…

— Wilder Penfield