Geniuses -

genius ivan pavlov

Ivan Pavlov

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.

You Might Also Be Interested In:

genius ivan pavlov

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

genius ivan pavlov

the physiology of the central nervous system. In a pamphlet entitled “ Reflexes of the Brain,” published in Russian in 1863, he attempted to represent the activities of the cerebral hemispheres as reflex—that is to say, as determined. Thoughts he regarded as reflexes in which the effector path was inhibited, while great outbursts of passion he regarded as exaggerated reflexes with a wide irradiation of excitation.

genius 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

genius 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.

genius ivan pavlov

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