Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.
I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might ap… - Wilder Penfield
I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might ap…
- Wilder Penfield
The brain has not explained the mind fully. - Wilder Penfield
The brain has not explained the mind fully.
It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet. - Wilder Penfield
It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.
Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it. - Wilder Penfield
Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. - Wilder Penfield
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. - Wilder Penfield
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonab… - Wilder Penfield
Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonab…
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, no… - Wilder Penfield
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, no…
The problem of neurology is to understand man himself. - Wilder Penfield
The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
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