"Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant."
"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
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Source: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”
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