Santiago Ramón y Cajal Citas

• El cerebro es un mundo formado por varios continentes inexplorados y grandes extensiones de territorio desconocido.

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  Numbers, Brain, World

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• Cada hombre, si lo desea, se convierte en escultor de su propio cerebro.

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  Men, Brain, Desire

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• 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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  Patience, Perseverance, Work

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

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• Mientras nuestro cerebro sea un misterio, el universo, reflejo de la estructura del cerebro, también lo será.

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  Reflection, Long, Brain

  Charlas de Cafe

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• Like the entomologist 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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  Butterfly, Garden, Grey Matter

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• 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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  Mistake, Ignorance, Heaven Sent

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• 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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  Nature, Diversity, Intellectual

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• No hay problemas pequeños. Los problemas que parecen pequeños son grandes problemas que no se entienden

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  Small Problems, Problem, Understood

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.17, MIT Press

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

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  Men, Opinion, Disputes

  Charlas de Cafe

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

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  Mind, Reason

  Charlas de Cafe

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• 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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  Brain, History Of Life, Intimate

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

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  Adults, Nerves, May

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

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  Conocimiento, Ciencia, Hombres

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

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  Pain, Lasts, Moral

  Charlas de Cafe

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• 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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  Time, Work, Ideas

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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

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  Desire, Notorious, Increase

  Charlas de Cafe

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• In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed and confounded by the supreme constructive ingenuity revealed not only in the retina and in the dioptric apparatus of the vertebrates but even in the meanest insect eye. ... I felt more profoundly than in any other subject of study the shuddering sensation of the unfathomable mystery of life.

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  Eye, Science, Research

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1989). “Recollections of My Life”, p.576, MIT Press

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• 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.

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  Creer, Inteligente, Hombres

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• 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.

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  Morning, Flower, Intellectual

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.35, MIT Press

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• 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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  Writing, Science, Years

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

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• 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.

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  Stars, Powerful, Eye

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• En mi opinión, algunos consejos sobre lo que se debe saber, sobre la formación técnica que se debe adquirir, sobre la intensa motivación necesaria para tener éxito y sobre el descuido y la inclinación al sesgo que se deben evitar son mucho más útiles que todas las reglas y advertencias de la lógica teórica.

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  Motivation, Knowledge, Science

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• 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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  Running, Strong, Science

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.48, MIT Press

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• What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

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  Character, Fate, Together

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• Los héroes y los eruditos representan los extremos opuestos... El erudito lucha en beneficio de toda la humanidad, a veces para reducir el esfuerzo físico, a veces para reducir el dolor, y a veces para aplazar la muerte, o al menos hacerla más soportable. En cambio, el patriota sacrifica una parte bastante sustancial de la humanidad en aras de su propio prestigio. Su estatua se erige siempre sobre un pedestal de ruinas y cadáveres... En cambio, toda la humanidad corona a un erudito, el amor forma el pedestal de sus estatuas, y sus triunfos desafían la profanación del tiempo y el juicio de la historia.

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  Pain, Struggle, Hero

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