Ivan Pavlov Quotes

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• Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
• It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental…
• If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then…
• I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective,…
• In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,…
• One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of…
• As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.
• Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
• Learn, compare, collect the facts!
• Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
• Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.
• Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work…
• But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
• The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is…
• When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker…
• From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the…
• Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the…
• Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through…
• As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other…
• Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

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