The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are inv…

- Walter Bradford Cannon

These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse…

- Walter Bradford Cannon

Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakth…

- Walter Bradford Cannon

As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons have arrived." Then …

- Walter Bradford Cannon

Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.

- Walter Bradford Cannon

I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?

- Walter Bradford Cannon

Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may…

- Walter Bradford Cannon