Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14, 1849 – February 27, 1936) was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov was widely known for first describing the phenomenon now known as classical conditioning in his experiments with dogs.

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• The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?
  • Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals (1906)

• Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.
  • Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals

• Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
  • Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia (1936)

• Learn, compare, collect the facts!
  • Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia