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“The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.”

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Richard Selzer, born on June 24, 1928, was an accomplished American author known for his diverse writing, which encompassed medicine, law, history, and literary criticism. Selzer was renowned for his unique narrative style and profound insights into human experience. more

“There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.”

Important Pain Sound Pleasure Brain Special Events Particular Color Evolution Add Tricks Cosmic Quests Schemes Facets Pain Pleasure

Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry

“The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.”

Knows Has Beens Able Process Brain Consciousness Imagine Understood Comprehension

Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry

“We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.”

Needs Stills Space Views Numbers Brain Ignorance Particular Ought Office Mass Infinite Admire Confusion Muscles Disorder Disposition Small Spaces Dissection

Author:Nicolas Steno

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