Dr. Brenda Milner - Personally

Dr. Milner: "As I look back over the past 50 years, it seems to me that I have had a lot of luck being in the right place at the right time, but also enough tenacity of purpose not to be discouraged when the going got rough, as it frequently did in the early days at the MNI [Montreal Neurological Institute]. I am also grateful for my sense of curiosity, which led me to wish to delve deeper into phenomena that caught my eye, and which keeps me going to this day."

An 11-year-old girl asked Dr. Milner what she liked best about being a scientist. The young girl writes, "She said that if you look at poetry, music or story writing you will notice that it can be all as good a hundred years ago as it is now. But in science, the discoveries made now are always more advanced and better than the ones a hundred years ago. Science is always new and is meant to make our lives more interesting and understandable."