The intellect is presented with phenomena marching in review before the sensory organs. It can be truly useful and productive only when limiting itse… - Santiago Ramón y Cajal

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The intellect is presented with phenomena marching in review before the sensory organs. It can be truly useful and productive only when limiting itself to the modest tasks of observation, description, and comparison, and of classification that is based on analogies and differences. A knowledge of underlying causes and empirical laws will then come slowly through the use of inductive methods.

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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 Ramon y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal Agüeras
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It is important to note that the most brilliant discoveries have not relied on a formal knowledge of logic. Instead, their discoverers have had an acute inner logic that generates ideas with the same unstudied unconsciousness that allowed Jourdain to create prose.

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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 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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