Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you never can fly.Ivan Pavlov
“Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.”
“Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.”
— IVAN PAVLOV
Physiologist known for classical conditioning · 1849 – 1936
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist who won the 1904 Nobel Prize for his work on the digestive system. His experiments with dogs, which learned to salivate at the sound of a bell associated with food, revealed the conditioned reflex, a cornerstone of behavioral psychology known as classical conditioning or 'Pavlovian' learning. He ran a large research institute in St. Petersburg well into his eighties.
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