Wilder Penfield famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Destiny #Race #Brain
The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
-- Wilder Penfield

#Men #Neurology #Problem
Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.
-- Wilder Penfield

#Essence #Mind #May
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

#Mind #Brain #Doe
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

#Brain #Rust #Results
Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.
-- Wilder Penfield

#Hate #Brain #Different
The brain has not explained the mind fully.
-- Wilder Penfield

#Science #Religion #Brain
Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!
-- Wilder Penfield

#Men #Brain #Mind
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, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.
-- Wilder Penfield

#Children #Giving #Parent
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.
-- Wilder Penfield

#Running #Cells #Brain
...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind...
-- Wilder Penfield

#Country #Mind #Might

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