Ivan Pavlov Quotes

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. ~ Ivan Pavlov

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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

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

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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

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

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity - the human brain - which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science. ~ Ivan Pavlov

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. ~ Ivan Pavlov

I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded. ~ Ivan Pavlov

Learn, compare, collect the facts! ~ Ivan Pavlov

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones ~ Ivan Chtcheglov

Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life. ~ Ivan Turgenev

We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel. ~ Ivan Chtcheglov

Ivan held both hands in front of him as if this was very serious. My current approach is using one fork for each bite and then making a pile of them in the middle of the table. ~ Kiera Cass

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ~ Ivan Illich

Bullies are almost always outnumbered by the bullied. We just need to organize. ~ Ivan E. Coyote

The Master is nothing but a disciple who would like to help others find their mastery ~ Ivan Figueroa-Otero

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. ~ Ivan Reitman

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit ...
Ivan Karamazov ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I? Believe me, Zinaida Alexandrovna, that whatever you did, however much you make me suffer, I shall love you and adore you to the end of my days. ~ Ivan Turgenev

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal ... ~ Ivan Turgenev

Ivan couldn't think of a religion that was any damn good at making utter truthtellers out of its practitioners. Maybe the Quakers were truly plainspoken at one time, but even they managed to squeeze out a Richard Nixon after a few hundred years of suppressing their human propinquity for untruth. ~ Orson Scott Card

Although people call love a capricious and unaccountable emotion that arises like an illness, nonetheless it has its own laws and reasons, like everything else. If these laws have been little studied so far, that is because a person struck down by love is in no condition to observe with a scholar's eye as the impression steals into his soul and shackles his emotions like a dream, as first his eyes go blind, at which moment his pulse and then his heart begin beating harder, all of a sudden there arises as of yesterday an undying devotion, the desire to sacrifice oneself; one's I gradually vanishes and crosses over into him or her; the mind becomes wither unusually dull or unusually sharp; the will surrenders to the will of another; and the head bows, the knees shake and the tears and fever come. ~ Ivan Goncharov

Ivan Ilych had been a colleague of the gentlemen present and was liked by them all. He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be incurable. His post had been kept open for him, but there had been conjectures that in case of his death Alexeev might receive his appointment, and that either Vinnikov or Shtabel would succeed Alexeev. So on receiving the news of Ivan Ilych's death the first thought of each of the gentlemen in that private room was of the changes and promotions it might occasion among themselves or their acquaintances. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear ... from my future Kids' Funny Business. ~ Ivan Stoikov

The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did before as we can get so full of ourselves we lose our true self. Always be humble. Even if you're good. Always. ~ Lik Hock Yap Ivan

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite. ~ Ivan Turgenev

Words indeed have been my ruin; they have consumed me, and to the end I cannot be free of them. ~ Ivan Turgenev

The "why not" of youth, the secret desire to know his luck, to try his strength all on his own without the support of another, eventually won through. ~ Ivan Turgenev

The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling. ~ Ivan Illich

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it. ~ Ivan Allen

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table. ~ Ivan Turgenev

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting. ~ Ivan Misner

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle. ~ Ivan Klima

Love is the first feeling we felt since birth and the last thing will need in Death. ~ Ricardo Luis Ivan I Geronimo

And another thing - when you talk to that pompous ass on the phone, do not go all syrupy." He folded his arms across his chest and looked down at her from his superior height.
"Syrupy?" she echoed indignantly, outraged at the accusation. "I never sound syrupy." Her large eyes flashed a warning at him, daring him to pursue his point.
He dared to. "Oh yes, you do." He clasped his hands together and made a face, his voice rising an octave as he simpered. "Oh, Marie, the flowers are so beautiful. Thomas Ivan gave them to me." He rolled his eyes as he mimicked her. ~ Christine Feehan

Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism. ~ Robert D. Kaplan

I'm the boss. I'm allowed to yell. ~ Ivan Boesky

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them. ~ Ivan Illich

I share no man's opinions; I have my own. ~ Ivan Turgenev

The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands. ~ Ivan Goncharov