Johannes Peter Muller Quotes

• We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.

  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.

  Johannes Peter Muller

• The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

  Johannes Peter Muller

• The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

  Johannes Peter Muller

• The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

  Johannes Peter Muller

• The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

  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.

  Johannes Peter Muller

• Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, – physics and chemistry.

  Johannes Peter Muller

• It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

  Carl Maria von Weber

• He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.

  Johannes Peter Muller

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Birth:	14th July, 1801
Death:	28th April, 1858
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Physiologist

About

Johannes Peter Muller was born in Koblenz, Germany. He was a German physiologist, known not only for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge. His major work was Elements of Physiology. He earned his MD degree from the University of Bonn in 1819. He continued his studies at the University of Berlin, where he came under the influence of the sober, precise anatomist Karl Rudolphi and thereby freed himself from naturalistic speculation. In 1824, he was granted a lectureship in physiology and comparative anatomy at the University of Bonn. In 1826 he was appointed associate professor, and in 1830 he became a full professor. He wrote several books include: Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen, and System der Asteriden.

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