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Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis
(5 Jun 1757 - 5 May 1808)
French physiologist and philosopher.
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Science Quotes by Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis (2 quotes)
A man is as old as his arteries.
— Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive of the brain as a peculiar organ, specially designed for the production thereof, just as the stomach is designed to effect digestion, the liver to filter the bile, the parotids and the maxillary and sublingual glands to prepare the salivary juices.
— Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis
Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme (1805), 2nd edition, Vol. 1, 152-3. Translated in Robert M. Young, Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (1970), 20.
See also:
- 5 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Cabanis's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
