Quotes from Wilder Penfield

But there was something else that I discovered in Madrid. It had more to do with the spirit than it did with knowledge and yet it was something I could hope to hand on. A change in method or technique accounts for many things in human history.

He who seeks water from an empty vessel may choke on its dust. (No Other Gods. pg. 223)

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

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.

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

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

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.

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