The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seat…

- Johannes Peter Muller

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to …

- Johannes Peter Muller

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws whic…

- Johannes Peter Muller

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity fo…

- Johannes Peter Muller

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double…

- Johannes Peter Muller

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that…

- Johannes Peter Muller

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation th…

- Johannes Peter Muller

A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same …

- Johannes Peter Muller

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the…

- Johannes Peter Muller