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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain ( p. xv).”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Instead of elaborating on accepted principles, let us simply point out that for the last hundred years the natural sciences have abandoned completely the Aristotelian principles of intuition, inspiration, and dogmatism.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The unique method of reflection indulged in by the Pythagoreans and followers of Plato (and pursued in modern times by Descartes, Fichte, Krause, Hegel, and more recently at least partly by Bergson) involves exploring one’s own mind or soul to discover universal laws and solutions to the great secrets of life.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This history of civilization proves beyond doubt just how sterile the repeated attempts of metaphysics to guess at nature' s laws have been. Instead, there is every reason to believe that when the human intellect ignores reality and concentrates within, it can no longer explain the simplest inner workings of life' s machinery or of the world around us ( p. 2).”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The intellect is presented with phenomena marching in review before the sensory organs. It can be truly useful and productive only when limiting itself to the modest tasks of observation, description, and comparison, and of classification that is based on analogies and differences. A knowledge of underlying causes and empirical laws will then come slowly through the use of inductive methods.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Claude Bernard has pointed out, researchers cannot transcend the determinism of phenomena; instead, their mission is limited to demonstrating the how, never the why, of observed changes. This is a modest goal in the eyes of philosophy, yet an imposing challenge in actual practice.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowing the conditions under which a phenomenon occurs allows us to reproduce or eliminate it at will, therefore allowing us to control and use it for the benefit of humanity. Foresight and action are the advantages we obtain from a deterministic view of phenomena.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The severe constraints imposed by determinism may appear to limit philosophy in a rather arbitrary way. However, there is no denying that in the natural sciences — and especially in biology — it is a very effective tool for avoiding the innate tendency to explain the universe as a whole in terms of general laws.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now and then philosophers invade the field of biological sciences with these beguiling generalizations, which tend to be unproductive, purely verbal solutions lacking in substance. At best, they may prove useful when viewed simply as working hypotheses.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no doubt that the human mind is fundamentally incapable of solving these formidable problems (the origin of life, nature of matter, origin of movement, and appearance of consciousness). Our brain is an organ of action that is directed toward practical tasks; it does not appear to have been built for discovering the ultimate causes of things, but rather for determining their immediate causes and invariant relationships.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is important to note that the most brilliant discoveries have not relied on a formal knowledge of logic. Instead, their discoverers have had an acute inner logic that generates ideas with the same unstudied unconsciousness that allowed Jourdain to create prose.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In summary, there are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood (p. 17).”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source