Top 39 Ramon Cajal Quotes
#1. The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#2. 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
#3. That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#4. Every man has a cemetery inside him. You don't know how big yours is until you dig in it.
David L. Robbins
#5. Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Publilius Syrus
#6. 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
#8. Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:
It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
Jonas Salk
#9. 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
#10. As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
Iris Chang
#11. He reels me in, cups my face with both hands, and becomes my whole world. This is a kiss
maybe the last one we'll ever know, so we stay there forever, warm and safe. When he pulls away, something is lost. I think it's my heart.
Alex Adams
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. If you can see it, then I can do it. If you have a vision for it, then I can make a way. I can open up new doors. I can bring the right people. I can give you the finances. I can break the chains holding you back.
Joel Osteen
#15. Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf ... you have to get on your knees to get it.
Robert Collier
#16. Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
Mike D
#17. Already it was beginning to feel like something that happened to somebody else, a long time ago.
Neil Gaiman
#18. 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
#19. Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#21. 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
#22. Apparently Lord Wyndham did regularly donate books to various museums around London. They were usually ones which he had collected earlier, but which were no longer of interest to him or his associates. Irene twitched at the very notion. Give books away? How very frivolous, she finally said.
Genevieve Cogman
#23. 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
#24. 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
#26. () Teeth clenched, she heard herself snarl out words in a voice feral in its savagery (...)
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
Horace
#35. There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#36. But this larger and more adventurous Christian universe has one final mark difficult to express; yet as a conclusion of the whole matter I will attempt to express
G.K. Chesterton
#38. 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
#39. It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
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