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From the very beginning of your work, school yourselves to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Ivan Pavlov

Do not allow haughtiness to take you in possession. Due to that you will refuse useful advice and friendly help, you will lose the standard of objectiveness.

Ivan Pavlov

What is a scientific laboratory? It is a small world, a small corner of reality. And in this small corner man labors with his mind at the task of... knowing this reality in order correctly to predict what will happen... even to direct this reality according to his will, to command it, if this is within our technical means.

Ivan Pavlov

Here I now simply uphold and assert the absolute and incontestable right of natural science to operate wherever and whenever it is able to display its power. And who knows the limits to this!

Ivan Pavlov

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

Ivan Pavlov

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.

Ivan Pavlov

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

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov

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Born: September 26, 1849

Died: February 27, 1936 (aged 86)

Bio: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. From his childhood days Pavlov demonstrated intellectual brilliance along with an unusual energy which he named "the instinct for research".

Known for:

Conditioned reflexes
The work of the digestive glands

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