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.
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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.
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Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
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The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance from the source; it will also depend on local conditions at the point of observation, and to some extent on the conditions along the path from source to that point.
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