Santiago Ramón y Cajal Quotes
Neuroscientist and histologist
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was neuroscientist and histologist from Spain
“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”— Santiago Ramón y Cajal
From Cajal's book Consejos a un joven investigador (Advice for a Young Investigator), 1897. Based on his discovery that neural connections change through effort.
The Story of Santiago
Drawings That Still Teach
Cajal made hundreds of drawings of brain cells, so precise they are still used in medical schools today. He published his autobiography in 1917 and founded the Cajal Institute in Madrid in 1920. He died October 17, 1934, at eighty-two. The artist his father refused to let him become had drawn the most detailed map of the human brain ever made.
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