19th-century Neuroscientist Quotes

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Otto Loewi

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried

I believe that excessive admiration for the work of great minds is one of the most unfortunate preoccupations of intellectual youth — along with a conviction that certain problems cannot be attacked, let alone solved, because of one's relatively limited abilities.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

The axis cylinders of all nerve fibers (motor, secretory, sensitive and sensory, conducting centrifugally or centripetally) have been proved to proceed directly from the cells. A connection with a fiber network, or an origin from such a network, does not take place.

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.

The study of the causes of things must be preceded by the study of things caused.

John Hughlings Jackson