Physiology Quotes

• The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

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• Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Self, Names

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and unequivocal phenomena that can always be confirmed.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Science, Certain, Should

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• In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

  Ernest Starling

  Ambition, Knowledge, Science

  Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”

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• Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Consciousness, Nervous, Process

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• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  Samuel Butler

  Healing, Physicians, Divinity

  Notebooks (1912) Ch. XIV

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• Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Psychology, Fields

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

  Edward Thorndike

  Art, Agriculture, Psychology

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• Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Adrenal Glands, Nerves, Lasts

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.

  Tom Peters

  Feel Better, Soul, Body

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.18, Vintage

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• Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Loss, Animal, Blood

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• Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Animal, Vegetables, Law

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• Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

  Ernst Mach

  Powerful, Support, Development

  Ernst Mach (1897). “Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations”

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• The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Taken, Inquiry, Assumption

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.2, Beard Books

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• Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

  Jean Fernel

  Anatomy And Physiology, Theatre, Events

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• In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

  Sydney Brenner

  Moving, School, Second Chance

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• Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

  John Gorrie

  Medical, Improvement, Surveys

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• I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

  Sydney Brenner

  School, Might Use, Trying

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• Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Osteoporosis, Threat, Thirds

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• Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.

  Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

  Prayer, Heart, Play

  Foreword to "Following the Synagogue Service" by Jeffrey Cohen, Gnesia Publications, (p. ix), 1997.

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• I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

  Barbara Block

  Strong, Class, Remember

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• The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

  Robert Fogel

  Technology, Simple, Two

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• Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

  Justus von Liebig

  Animal, Vegetables, Mysterious

  Justus von Liebig (1844). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner”, p.10

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• One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.

  James Dobson

  Girl, Sex, Kids

  "Focus on the Family with Dr. James C. Dobson" by James C. Dobson, volumes 19-20, 1995.

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• In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

  Oliver Sacks

  Life, Anatomy And Physiology, Disease

  "Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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