Santiago Ramon Y Cajal Quotes
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.
There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.
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.
Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.
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."
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!
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.
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith hardly ever.