Perfect As The Wing Of A Bird

Possibilities Are Like The Wings Of Birds; They Allow Man To Soar And To Climb To The Heavens. And Facts Are Like The Atmosphere Against Which Those Wings Must Beat, And Without Which The Soaring Bird Will Surely Plummet Back To Earth.

Perfect As The Wing Of A Bird May Be, It Will Never Enable The Bird To Fly If Unsupported By The Air. Facts Are The Air Of Science. Without Them A Man Of Science Can Never Rise.

One Can Truly Say That The Irresistible Progress Of Natural Science Since The Time Of Galileo Has Made Its First Halt Before The Study Of The Higher Parts Of The Brain, The Organ Of The Most Complicated Relations Of The Animal To The External World. And It Seems, And Not Without Reason, That Now Is The Really Critical Moment For Natural Science; For The Brain, In Its Highest Complexity-the Human Brain-which Created And Creates Natural Science, Itself Becomes The Object Of This Science.

School Yourself To Demureness And Patience. Learn To Inure Yourself To Drudgery In Science. Learn, Compare, Collect The Facts.

It Goes Without Saying That The Desire To Accomplish The Task With More Confidence, To Avoid Wasting Time And Labour, And To Spare Our Experimental Animals As Much As Possible, Made Us Strictly Observe All The Precautions Taken By Surgeons In Respect To Their Patients.