Metchnikoff Quotes

#1. Sometimes you give more love, sometimes you need more love. Be with the person you can balance with.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#2. 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

#3. They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

Elie Metchnikoff

#5. For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Terry Eagleton

#6. The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

Elie Metchnikoff

#7. 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

#8. I'm not clumsy; just accident prone.

Daniel Radcliffe

#9. I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

Marlene Dietrich

#10. The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

Elie Metchnikoff

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.

Tom Hardy

#14. 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

#15. In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.

Elie Metchnikoff

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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