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“Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.”

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Rudolf Virchow

German physician and one of the founders of cellular pathology, known as one of the greatest scientists in the history of medicine. He proposed the basic principles of cellular pathology, which had a profound impact on the development of modern medicine. 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)

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