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Elie Metchnikoff Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: russian
Birth: May 16, 1845 - July 16, 1916

Topics

Simple Man Animals See Disease Cure

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Meister Eckhart

Inspirational Heart Soul Yourself Go

I would never be one to critique the announcers when I watched games. I try to watch the play and listen to the broadcasters and what they are pointing out. I was never one to say this one was good or bad.

John Madden

Good Bad Play Say Try Never

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Michael Collins

Alone Way Been Knew Before Ever

Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.

Sophia Amoruso

Beauty Power Value Magic You Will

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Simon Newcomb

Growth Science Time War Direction

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

Michael K. Powell

Communication Beauty Future Service

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Corruption Poverty Attention Cancer

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

Douglas Sirk

Man Me Picture Young Young Man Left

You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

Christopher Walken

Effort Step People Think Die You

I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

Bradley Wiggins

Wife Think Eat Because Get Stuff

The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar

Man Action Test Lies Any

I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.

Scott Bakula

Captain Never Original Star Someday