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10 quotes by Johannes P. Muller

Johannes Peter Müller (14 July 1801 – 28 April 1858), was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist, known not only for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge.
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The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous... →

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He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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