Ivan Pavlov Quotes

‘Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.’ – Ivan Pavlov

‘While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.’ – 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

‘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

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

‘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.’ – Ivan Pavlov

‘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.’ – Ivan Pavlov

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

‘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.’ – 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