"If we could look through the skull into……" — Ivan Pavlov
"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 we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere."
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Ivan Pavlov
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38 Quotes by Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov has 38 quotes on this site.
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour,…
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I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological,…
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In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of…
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One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first…
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As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.
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Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
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Learn, compare, collect the facts!
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Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
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Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of…
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Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you.…
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But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that…
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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