Santiago Ramon y Cajal Quotes - Page 2

• Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Pain, Struggle, Hero

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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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