Research in neurophysiology is much more like paddling a small canoe on a mountain river. The river which is fed by many distant springs carries you along all right, though often in a peculiar direction. You have to paddle quite hard to keep afloat. And sooner or later some of your ideas are upset and are carried downstream like an upturned canoe.

Lex Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes in 1963, Nobel banquet speech for award received in 1963, Nobel Foundation. Stockholm, Sweden. 1964