Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Ants | Nautilus
“The horrendous European war of 1914 was for my scientific activity a very rude blow,” Cajal recalled. “It altered my health, already somewhat disturbed, and it cooled, for the first time, my enthusiasm for investigation.”
““In about twenty or thirty years, when the orphans of the present war will be men, the same stupendous massacre will be repeated,”
Waking Life | Laphams's Quarterly
““Perhaps it would have ended up there anyway. Sharing many of the foibles and fallacies of early psychology, The Psychology of Day-Dreams is far from perfect. Centered and based on the experience of a white male not only in war but also in life writ large, it could be said that his theories discounted and excluded many. “
Why the First Drawings of Neurons Were Defaced | Quanta Magazine | 2017
“Now it is horrible, but at this time in history it was not,” Toledano said. “In the National Library and in the universities at the time, this was normal. The most important thing was that the stamp was placed in the center of the page of the books and the drawings and so on.”