Famous Quotes

"Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands."

Ivan Pavlov on Food

More quotes about Food

• "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

  Oscar Wilde on Food

• "You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

  Yogi Berra on Food

• "Beware the hobby that eats."

  Benjamin Franklin on Food

More quotes by Ivan Pavlov

• "Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach."

• "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."

• "It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion."

• "It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients."

• "Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."