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“My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. Commenting about Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.”

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Jean-Baptiste Biot

Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist recognized for his contributions to optics and acoustics. He is also known for his work in magnetism and the development of the Biot-Savart law. Biot was born on April 21, 1774, and died on February 3, 1862. more

“The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.”

Ifs Knows Life Wells Mean Hard Past Science Certain Views Effort History Our Lives Century Vain Backwards Alchemist Elixir Prolonging Elixir Of Life

Author:Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

“The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To-day the dictum must be modified to admit that, often, to refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one, because inhibition is coequally with excitation a nervous activity.”

Way Life Has Beens Seems Action Science Animal Brain Activity Aim Commit Passing Passings Nervous Nerves Motor Refrain Inhibitions

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.”

Source: The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)

“The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such is not likely to fall prey to the field of an advanced chemistry. The cell is itself an organism, constituted of many small units of life.”

Life Science Fall Fields Cells Giants Chemistry Chemicals Peculiar Organisms Units Prey Molecules Protein Keystones

Author:Oscar Hertwig

“The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given substance is an invariable quantity-i.e., one independent of the circumstances accompanying the combustion-from which it is more specifically concluded that the chemical effect of the combustible materials undergoes no quantitative change even as a result of the vital process, or that the living organism, with all its mysteries and marvels, is not capable of generating heat out of nothing.”

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