Top 12 Wilder Penfield Quotes
#1. Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!
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#2. Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.
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#3. 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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#5. Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!
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#6. 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 suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.
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#7. 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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#8. But there was something else that I discovered in Madrid. It had more to do with the spirit than it did with knowledge and yet it was something I could hope to hand on. A change in method or technique accounts for many things in human history.
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#9. 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 yet.
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#10. The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
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#11. 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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#12. 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 ...
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