Quotes by Elie Metchnikoff - Page 1

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Public Interest
Concerns
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The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Mammals
Old Age
Age Man Old Age
Presents
Similar
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In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Ancient
Esteem
Nature World Human
Greeks
Held
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Adoration
Excellence
Plastic
Appeared
Nature Art Human
Greeks
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Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Phenomenon
Understood
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Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Defective
Mentally
Functions
Qualities
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The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Conception
Development
Greek
Harmony
Rationalism
Renaissance
Centuries
Complete
Followed
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There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Constant
Elements
Importance
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It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Biologist
Causes
Noticing
Old Age
Precocious
Age Old Age Old
Aroused
Phenomena
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Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Conditions
Human Life
No Doubt
Philosophical
Powerless
Life Science People
Cultured
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It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in schools or troops where everyone lives the same life, disease does not strike everyone indifferently.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Danger
Disease
Exposed
Troops
Households
Strike
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Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Fear
Illumination
Real
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Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if the lower animals, with very simple organizations, showed pathological phenomena, and if so, infection, cure and immunity could be observed among them.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Disease
Immunity
Infection
Natural
Prerogative
Simple
Among
Animals
Quite
Cure
Domestic
Observed
Phenomena
Lower
Pathological
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In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Giving
Growth
Way
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It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Science
Cells
Principles
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The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Appearance
Bent
Body
Description
Dry
Familiar
Gait
Old Age
Pale
Persons
Traits
Weak
Well Known
Aged
Face
Skin
Detailed
Generally
Hairs
Head
Laborious
Memory
Necessary
Slow
Wrinkled
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