Interesting, entertaining, thoughtful, inspirational quotes by Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist and histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal

On May 1, 1852, Ramón y Cajal was born in Petilla de Aragón, Spain. Cajal was a renowned Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist and histologist, expert in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first person of Spanish origin to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience. Hundreds of his illustrations depicting arborization (growing trees) of brain cells have been in continuous use since the mid-20th century, for educational and training purposes. He died on 17 October 1934. Some interesting, entertaining, thoughtful, inspirational quotes of Ramon Y Cajal are presented here -

Any person, if he is willing, can become the sculptor of his own mind.

Great men are sometimes geniuses, sometimes children, and always incomplete.

How many interesting facts are not transformed into fertile discoveries because their first observers regard them as natural and ordinary things! It is strange to see how the masses, who nourish their imagination with tales of witches or saints, mystical happenings and paranormal phenomena, despise the world around them as ordinary, dull and dreary, without realizing it. Doubt that beneath it all lies mystery, mystery and wonder.

All excellent works, in art as well as science, are the result of immense enthusiasm applied to a great idea.

If a solution fails to appear and we still feel like success is very close, try to relax for a while. Like the morning frost, this intellectual freshness dries up the parasites and bad vegetation that destroy the good seed. Ultimately bursting is the flower of truth.

It is important to understand that if some areas of science appear to be quite mature, others are in the process of development, and still others have yet to be born.

O comfortable solitude, how favorable you are to the original thought.

It is fair to say that in general none of the problems have gone away, instead men have become tired of the problems.

Mediocre people can be educated, the talented educate themselves.

Our novice takes the risk of failure without additional traits, a strong inclination towards originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable satisfaction associated with the act of discovery.

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

As long as our brain remains a mystery, the universe, a reflection of the brain's structure, will also remain a mystery.

Persistence is a virtue of less talented people.

The hero and the scholar represent opposite extremes

In short, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with steadfast concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

Whatever enters the mind through logic can be corrected. What is accepted through faith is rarely healed.

The neural pathways in adult centers are certain, finished, immutable. Everything can die, nothing can be revived.

Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image studied over time were to sprout appendages like an amoeba, growths that spread in all directions, avoiding one obstacle after another, before interspersing with related ideas.

Physical suffering is easily forgotten, but moral suffering lasts indefinitely.

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