Quotes About Ivan Pavlov

#1. The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?

Ivan Pavlov

#2. 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, affected the normal work of the stomach.

Ivan Pavlov

#3. As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

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#4. Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

Ivan Pavlov

#5. Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

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#6. Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

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#7. 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 with various mechanical devices.

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#8. 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 one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

Ivan Pavlov

#9. Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

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#10. Do not become a mere recorder of facts, but try and penetrate the mystery of their origin.

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#11. The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.

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#12. 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 single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

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#13. Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

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#14. 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 these nerves in normal activity.

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#15. Learn, compare, collect the facts!

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#16. School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

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#17. As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

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#18. It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

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#19. 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 the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

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#20. Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

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#21. It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

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#22. Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

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#23. 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 the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

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#24. Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.

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#25. 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 been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

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#26. When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

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#27. 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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#28. Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms an 'idea' is a process which can cause chemical changes in the body.

Jacques Loeb

#29. But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

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#30. From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

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#31. Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

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#32. 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 phenomena.

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#33. Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

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#34. 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 subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

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#35. While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

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#36. It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

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