Quotes by Russian authors

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"Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

Vladimir Putin

"To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many"

Vladimir Putin, President

"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose"

Mary Antin, Activist

Olga Korbut

"Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

Olga Korbut

"I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

Olga Korbut

"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

Olga Korbut

"And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"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"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

Vladimir Putin

"Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror"

Vladimir Putin, President

Vladimir Putin

"Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life"

Vladimir Putin, President

Olga Korbut

"This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

Olga Korbut

"I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

Olga Korbut

"And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

Vladimir Putin

"We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole"

Vladimir Putin, President

"The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"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"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

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

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

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