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I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account, his subject was a physiological substitute for war—which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races—to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

Walter Bradford Cannon

Time...is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.

Walter Bradford Cannon

The boundary of knowledge, however, is pushed forward with painful slowness, and always, as an advance is achieved, further territory to be explored is revealed.

Walter Bradford Cannon

Training and practice may not lead to perfection, but they will surely compensate for early inadequacy.

Walter Bradford Cannon

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

Walter Bradford Cannon

Walter Bradford Cannon

Walter Bradford Cannon

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Born: October 19, 1871

Died: October 1, 1945 (aged 73)

Bio: Walter Bradford Cannon was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term fight or flight response, and he expanded on Claude Bernard's concept of homeostasis.

Known for:

The wisdom of the body (1932)
The way of an investigator (1945)
The mechanical factors of digestion (1911)

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