# Quote — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator

> Knowing the conditions under which a phenomenon occurs allows us to reproduce or eliminate it at will, therefore allowing us to control and use it for the benefit of humanity. Foresight and action are the advantages we obtain from a deterministic view of phenomena.

- Author: [Santiago Ramon Y Cajal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/santiago-ramon-y-cajal.md)
- Book: [Advice for a Young Investigator](https://www.leafyquotes.com/santiago-ramon-y-cajal/advice-for-a-young-investigator.md)
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## More from this book

> This history of civilization proves beyond doubt just how sterile the repeated attempts of metaphysics to guess at nature' s laws have been. Instead, there is every reason to believe that when the human intellect ignores reality and concentrates within, it can no longer explain the simplest inner workings of life' s machinery or of the world around us ( p. 2).

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> It is important to note that the most brilliant discoveries have not relied on a formal knowledge of logic. Instead, their discoverers have had an acute inner logic that generates ideas with the same unstudied unconsciousness that allowed Jourdain to create prose.

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> Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain ( p. xv).

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