"Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant."
"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."
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Source: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”
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