Quotes by Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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

Brain

Long

Reflection

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.”

Science

Writing

Years

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.

Discovery

Errors

Genius

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

Brain

Desire

Men

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses… In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

Hero

Pain

Struggle

I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something that we as modest investigators will never attain, no matter how much we exert ourselves. Nevertheless … I continue to believe that there is always room for anyone with average intelligence … to utilize his energy and … any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least gifted may, like the poorest land that has been well-cultivated and fertilized, produce an abundant harvest.

Believe

Intelligent

Men

If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

Eye

Powerful

Stars

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.

Flower

Intellectual

Morning

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

Adults

May

Nerves

In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.

Knowledge

Motivation

Science

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Believe

Brain

Butterfly

Character

Desire

Discovery

Disputes

Diversity

Errors

Eye

Fate

Flower

Future

Garden

Genius

Good Luck

Grey Matter

Heaven Sent

Hero

History Of Life

Ideas

Ignorance

Increase

Intellectual

Intelligent

Intimate

Knowledge

Lasts

Long

May

Men

Mind

Mistake

Moral

Morning

Motivation

Nature

Nerves

Notorious

Numbers

Opinion

Pain

Patience

Perseverance

Powerful

Problem

Reason

Reflection

Research

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Quotes by Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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

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.”

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.

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

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.

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

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