"To speak, therefore, of an electric current in……" — Johannes Peter Muller
"To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism."
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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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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a…
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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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We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity…
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