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

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

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

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

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

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#5. 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.

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

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#7. 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

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

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#9. I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. That's just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.

Johnny Marr

#10. 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.

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

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#12. 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.

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

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#14. 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.

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

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#16. If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Jascha Heifetz

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

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

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

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#20. 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.

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#21. Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.

William Shatner

#22. 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.

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

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#24. 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.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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

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#28. 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."

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#29. Joy beats oppression.

Jack Terricloth

#30. The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

Jim Steinmeyer

#31. 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