Penfield Quotes

#1. For them, the last option was to have brain surgery, which involved removing parts of the skull and exposing the brain. (Since the brain has no pain sensors, a person can be conscious during this entire procedure, so Dr. Penfield used only a local anesthetic during the operation.)

Michio Kaku

#2. 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.

Wilder Penfield

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. In a way, subtle racism was worse because it made you feel crazy. You were always left wondering, was that actually racist? Had you just imagined it?

Brit Bennett

#6. The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

Wilder Penfield

#7. If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so.

Rachel L. Demeter

#8. Begin at the beginning, go on until the end, then stop.

Mark Twain

#9. She is why purgatory was invented.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#10. When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they will often establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal.

Yuval Noah Harari

#11. There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

Sophie Swetchine

#12. 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.

Wilder Penfield

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

Wilder Penfield

#14. 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.

Wilder Penfield

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

Wilder Penfield

#16. The brain has not explained the mind fully.

Wilder Penfield

#17. I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.

Bram Stoker

#18. Electrolyte water tastes as bland as my soul feels.

Ashley Poston

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

Wilder Penfield

#20. 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.

Wilder Penfield

#21. 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!

Wilder Penfield