American Physiologist Quotes

Jacques Loeb

Charles Brenton Huggins

Walter Bradford Cannon

Henry Pickering Bowditch

Investigators do not march straight to their goal with ease and directness.

Walter Bradford Cannon

An induction shock results in a contraction or fails to do so according to its strength; if it does so at all, it produces in the muscle at that time the maximal contraction that can result from stimuli of any strength.

Henry Pickering Bowditch

Nothing indicates, however, at present that the artificial production of living matter is beyond the possibilities of science...

A scientist is one who, when he does not know the answer, is rigorously disciplined to speak up and say so unashamedly; which is the essential feature by which modern science is distinguished from primitive superstition, which knew all the answers except how to say, "I do not know."

Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of "rationalist" for "agnostic" would also seem to be less ambiguous.

I am fully convinced that medical research can offer one a happy and productive life. And if one has a little Viking spirit he can explore the world and people as no one else can do. The whole medical research area is wide open for exploration.

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.

There are two kinds of scientists — The "gee whiz" kind and the "so what" kind. Flies around the urine cause the first type to exclaim: "Gee whiz, what could that mean?" whereas the other says: "so what, let's clean up this mess and get on with a proper experiment."

Charles Brenton Huggins