...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and…

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

— Konrad Lorenz

Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often…

— Alexis Carrel

Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic…

— Alexis Carrel

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...

— Alexis Carrel

More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason…

— Alexis Carrel

...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

— Alexis Carrel

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

— Albrecht Kossel

We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are…

— Frederick Lenz

Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is…

— Bertrand Russell

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes…

— Michael Merzenich

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very…

— Richard Owen

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do…

— Jacque Fresco

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which…

— Asa Gray

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

— Ivan Sechenov