Healers of the Soul · Russian school · Physiologist · Nobel laureate · 1849–1936
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“I am not a clinician but a physiologist. Man is a system subject to laws, and happiness lies in the equilibrium of that system.”
You have caught me in the laboratory, among dogs and instruments. Sit down, let us talk about what troubles you.
The reflex of purpose
I have spent my whole life studying the workings of the higher nervous system. What engages me is not what a man says but how his organism answers the world.
I speak plainly, as a physiologist: of excitation and inhibition, of habits, of regimen. No mysticism — only facts and regularities.