Ivan Pavlov Quotes

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• Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
• The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.
• Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate…
• In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally,…
• It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always…
• It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with…
• Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not…
• Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a…
• The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped…
• Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.
• School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.
• Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
• While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
• The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of…
• It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living…
• Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
• Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the…
• Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of…

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