Ivan Pavlov

"I teach students not what to think but how to think clearly."

"The power of thought lies in its ability to restructure our reflexes."

"Justice in science means giving credit to nature, not to our preconceived notions."

"What we fear controls us until we understand what we fear."

"The history of science is a history of overcoming our own blindness."

"Adventure in science begins where certainty ends."

"I have found more truth in the behavior of dogs than in the speeches of politicians."

"The work of understanding never truly ends; it only deepens."

"What we call love is often nothing more than a complex conditioned response."

"In solitude, the mind becomes its own best teacher."

"The technology of understanding is patience applied rigorously."

"Politics ignores the scientific study of human nature at its great peril."

"War is the failure of those who understood human nature to apply that understanding."

"The miracle of the brain is not that it thinks but that it thinks so consistently."

"Those who lead without understanding human nature lead toward disaster."

"Relationships are built on the foundation of understanding each other's conditioned responses."

"I have spent a lifetime learning, and I have only begun to understand."

"The hope of humanity lies in the application of scientific understanding to human behavior."

"Money, like all rewards, works through the same laws of conditioning as all other stimuli."

"The death of curiosity is the death of the scientist within us."

"What appears supernatural is merely natural law not yet understood."

"The faith of the scientist is faith in the orderliness of nature."

"Music affects the brain through the same principles that govern all stimulus and response."

"In literature, we find descriptions of human nature more accurate than in crude observations."

"The patience required for scientific work is the patience of love for truth itself."

"I have learned that the most complex behavior is built from the simplest reflexes."

"Change is not something to resist but to understand and work with consciously."

"The strength of my convictions comes from the strength of my evidence."

"Imagination without knowledge is wishful thinking; knowledge without imagination is sterile."

"To move forward, we must first understand where we are and how we came to be here."