10 Quotes by Wilder Penfield

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!

Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

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.

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.