"Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant."
"One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science."
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Source: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”
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