Popova observes: "With an eye to his own chosen field of histology, which he revolutionized by using beauty to illuminate the workings of the brain..."
Myopic theorists afflicted with confirmation bias "live in the clouds…As soon as they happen to notice a slight, half-hidden analogy between two phenomena…they dance for joy and genuinely believe that they are the most admirable of reformers," writes Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

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"Hypotheses come and go but data remain. Theories desert us, while data defend us…In the eternal shifting of things, only they will save us from the ravages of time and from the forgetfulness or injustice of men." Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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As for the megalomaniacs, "their eagerness is rendered sterile by a fatal flaw...always submerged in feverish activity, always revising, hatching the great embryonic work," they miss their chance as others stride ahead to crack the code, writes Santiago Ramón y Cajal.pic.twitter.com/7VWyNwlGQq
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