Wilder Penfield (26 January 1891 – 5 April 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery’s methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain. He was born on 26 January 1891 in Spokane, Washington, and studied at Princeton University and then at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. After completing his medical training, he began working as a neurosurgeon at the Montreal General Hospital in Canada, where he would spend the majority of his career.
Famous Wilder Penfield Quotes
“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.” ~ Wilder Penfield“Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!” ~ Wilder Penfield“Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.” ~ Wilder Penfield“The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.” ~ Wilder Penfield“Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.” ~ Wilder Penfield“Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.” ~ Wilder Penfield“The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.” ~ Wilder Penfield
