Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

- 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.

- 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

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

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 problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

- 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…

- 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…

- Wilder Penfield