Santiago Ramon y Cajal Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Errors, Discovery, Genius

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1951). “Precepts and counsels on scientific investigation: stimulants of the spirit”

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• To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Good Luck, Water, Too Much

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• 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.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Pain, Future, Science

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.51, MIT Press

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