Santiago Ramon y Cajal Quotes
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago. Advice for a Young Investigator. Translated by Neely Swanson and Larry W. Swanson, MIT Press, 1999, p. 43.
Wallace had been a supporter of Russia throughout WWII and thought that on balance the Russian Revolution was a constructive historical event. He was very naive naïve the excess of Stalin and thought that the reports of his atrocities and excesses were propaganda. However, when he found out the truth about Stalinist Russia, he became an anti-Communist, and wrote this book. He also supported Dwight D. Eisenhower for President which added to some of the radical right wing distrust of Eisenhower.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first person of Spanish origin to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.
