Robert Barany quotes

Robert Bárány was an Austrian scientist and physician renowned for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear. His groundbreaking research contributed greatly to the understanding of balance and equilibrium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries. Here are 7 of his quotes:

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

Robert Barany

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

Robert Barany

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

Robert Barany

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.

Robert Barany

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

Robert Barany

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

Robert Barany