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 PavlovDo not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
Ivan PavlovAppetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
Ivan PavlovScience 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.
Ivan PavlovThe digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is subjected to certain mechanical and, mainly, chemical processing, and then, through innumerable side-streets, it is brought into the depot of the body. Aside from this basic series of institutions, along which the raw material moves, there is a series of lateral chemical manufactories, which prepare certain reagents for the appropriate processing of the raw material.
Ivan Pavlov