Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Quotes

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

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

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

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

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (23)

Birth:	26th September, 1849
Death:	27th February, 1936
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Physiologist

About

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russia. He was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. In 1870, he enrolled in the physics and mathematics department at the University of Saint Petersburg in order to study natural science. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904, becoming the first Russian Nobel laureate. Pavlov's principles of classical conditioning have been found to operate across a variety of experimental and clinical settings, including educational classrooms. He earned a BS degree in Natural Sciences from the University of St. Petersburg in 1875. He received his MD degree from Imperial Medical Academy, St. Petersburg in 1879. He served as a professor of Physiology, Imperial Medical Academy, St. Petersburg from 1890-1924, professor of Pharmacology, Military Medical Academy from 1890-1895, and professor of Physiology, Military Medical Academy from 1895-1925. He was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1914.

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