“Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.” Quote by Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
“Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.” LifeScienceLife IsFoundOrganizationAtomsGenesMoleculesSynthesisSymbiosis Author:Edwin Conklin
“Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.” LifeLawScienceExpressionOrdinaryChemicals Author:Rudolf Virchow
“Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems.” MenLifeWellsScienceHealthDependsWell BeingProteinIntricate Author:Stanford Moore
“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.” LifeHeartI CanTwoFormScienceJoySonMy HeartBeatsHearingAccomplishmentMy SonCrystalsAcidSeparatingHeart BeatPasteur Author:Jean-Baptiste Biot
“One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.” LifeDoeScienceAcidProteinAmino Acids Author:Preston Cloud
“Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.” LifeHas BeensGovernmentHappensScienceRichScientistRewardsSatKillersCouncilPublic LifeBlindedAttractiveness Author:Frank Press
“I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.” WellsPartyBirthdayPumpkinBirthday PartyBinge Author:Kirstie Alley
“I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.” InspirationalBelieveMeanLongEnoughAgeYoungDiesWatchesTravelDon't BelieveBirthdayYoung AgeHappy EndingsInspirational Celebrity Author:George Clooney
“Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!” LifeScienceFineDoctorsCarefulKnivesSurgeonsEmilyCulprit Author:Emily Dickinson
“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.” IfsKnowsLifeWellsMeanHardPastScienceCertainViewsEffortHistoryOur LivesCenturyVainBackwardsAlchemistElixirProlongingElixir Of Life Author:Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp