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There is no doubt that the human mind is fundamentally incapable of solving these formidable problems (the origin of life, nature of matter, origin o… - Santiago Ramón y Cajal
" "There is no doubt that the human mind is fundamentally incapable of solving these formidable problems (the origin of life, nature of matter, origin of movement, and appearance of consciousness). Our brain is an organ of action that is directed toward practical tasks; it does not appear to have been built for discovering the ultimate causes of things, but rather for determining their immediate causes and invariant relationships.
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About Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a famous Spanish neuroanatomist and is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for medicine along with Camillo Golgi.
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Native Name:
Santiago Felipe Ramón y Cajal
Alternative Names:
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Ramon y Cajal
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal Agüeras
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This history of civilization proves beyond doubt just how sterile the repeated attempts of metaphysics to guess at nature' s laws have been. Instead, there is every reason to believe that when the human intellect ignores reality and concentrates within, it can no longer explain the simplest inner workings of life' s machinery or of the world around us ( p. 2).
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