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H. G. Wells wrote an article for, I believe, the Sunday New York Times. In it he compared Pavlov and George Bernard Shaw. They looked rather alike, with their great white beards, and it was easy for Wells to contrast the witty propagandist with the laboratory scientist. He posed a hypothetical question: If these two men were drowning, and you had only one life preserver, to which would you throw it? Wells enormously reassured me in the decision I had made by throwing it to Pavlov. (p. 649)