“Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.” HumansTwoBodyDiesIndividualGrowsCreatingFemaleUnionsMalesCellsEggsOrgansSplitsHuman BodyGerms Author:Christian Lous Lange
“Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.” IfsMindMatterScienceDiesEasyBrainForeverBuddhismCellsCollectionsReincarnationGreyGrey Matter Author:Frederick Lenz
“You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.” PeopleWantLongIdeasEnoughBodyDiesBitsDiseaseCancerHarmChecksCuresCellsGet AwayMisbehaving Author:Paul Davies
“Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.” WellsMeanDoeMadeBodyAgeLawDiesFailingEternalSkinsFunctionErrorsPhysicsCellsGenesOrgansOne WordEternal LifeLaws Of PhysicsSluggish Author:Michio Kaku
“I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.” YearsMomentsBodyDiesWeekCertaintyCellsSeptemberSeptember 11InevitabilityDemiseLooming Book:Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories Source: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories
“Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.” IfsMayFactsDiesBrainAuthorityDressesSizeCellsAffectedShrinksShrinkingBrain Cells Author:Erma Bombeck