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Santiago Ramon y Cajal

"If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem."

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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“More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.”
“Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial rÃ¨gime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.”

Source : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1952). “Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times”, p.88, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.”
“The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the â€œsigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.â€ I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.”
“Integrity has no need of rules.”
“If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.”
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?”

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