Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
Interpretation
Pursuing scientific knowledge requires a lifelong commitment and passion.
Ivan Pavlov highlights the inexhaustible nature of scientific inquiry, suggesting that one lifetime is insufficient to fully comprehend the vastness of science. He encourages individuals to be passionate and dedicated in their pursuit of knowledge, as genuine curiosity and effort are essential for meaningful exploration and discovery in the scientific field.
In practice
In a lecture about the importance of scientific research, a speaker might use this quote to emphasize dedication.
If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere.
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
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There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.
Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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