Cajal Quotes

#1. Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

Severo Ochoa

#2. Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#4. Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#5. It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#6. To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#7. That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#8. To know the brain ... is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#9. Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#10. There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#11. Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba - outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another - before interdigitating with related ideas.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#12. The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#13. Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself.

Alessandro Baricco

#14. What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#15. As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#16. 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.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#17. Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#18. Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#19. It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#20. In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

Jonas Gahr Store

#21. You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Lillian Hellman

#22. She'd been pounding her location and thoughts into a device that would send those things to virtually any human with Internet access and yet looking over her shoulder had been a violation of privacy.

Stefan Bourque

#23. Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#24. The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#25. In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#26. Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#27. In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#28. 12. A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Anonymous

#29. 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.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#30. What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#31. Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

Jonny Lang

#32. Perseverance is a virtue of the less brilliant.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#33. Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#34. If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while ... Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal