"Sensation is not the conduction of a quality……" — Johannes Peter Muller
"Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause."
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Johannes Peter Muller
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10 Quotes by Johannes Peter Muller
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A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical…
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Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present,…
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The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them,…
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The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source…
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The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific…
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It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of…
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The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not…
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To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if…
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We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity…
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