Wilder Penfield Quotes
In all our studies of the brain, no mechanism has been discovered that can force the mind to think, or the individual to believe, anything. The mind continues free. That is a statement I have long considered.
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Birth: | 26th January, 1891 |
Death: | 5th April, 1976 |
Nationality: | American, Canadian |
Profession: | Neurologist |
Wilder Graves Penfield was a pioneering neurosurgeon once dubbed "the greatest living Canadian". He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain. Penfield devoted a lot of his thinking to mental processes, contemplating whether there was any scientific basis for the existence of the human soul until his death.
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