A large exhibition in Zaragoza remembers the amazing life of Santiago Ramón y Cajal

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal did not drink alcohol or smoke. Around 1888, his peak year, the young scientist sat before his microscope like a machete-wielding adventurer in the jungle. “My homework started at nine in the morning and used to last until around midnight. And the most curious thing is that work gave me pleasure. It was a delicious intoxication, an irresistible charm," he wrote in his memoirs, Memories of my life. “Like the entomologist hunting for butterflies of colorful hues, my attention pursued, in the orchard of gray matter, cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose flapping wings who knows if one day will clarify the secret of mental life!

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