"Perfect as the wing of a bird may……" — Ivan Pavlov
"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 air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."
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Ivan Pavlov
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38 Quotes by Ivan Pavlov
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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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If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of…
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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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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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