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Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning youre something people dont see that often.

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Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

Future, Intellectual, Labors, Pain, Scholar, Science
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Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.

Discovery, Emerges, Error, Errors, Genius, Given

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes. . . The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses. . . In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

Extremes, Hero, Pain, Physical, Scholars, Struggle

Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

Butterfly, Chased, Garden, Grey Matter, Like, Soul

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.

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As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Brain, Long, Mystery, Reflection, Universe
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