Words matter. These are the best Ivan Pavlov Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.
Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.
The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
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.
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
