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The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

~Archibald Hill

Topics: Adventure Affair Dull Holiday Human Human Mind Imaginative Investigation Knowledge Live Material Mental Mind Natural Pursuit Rather Reckless Souls Voyage Which World

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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion.

~Archibald Hill

Topics: After Circulation Depends Deprived Diffusion Go Large Mass Muscle Oxygen Process Rate Reach Recovery Severe Stimulation Which

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One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

~Archibald Hill

Topics: Changes Characteristics Difficulty Fundamental Great Greatest Investigation Involving Muscle Place Take Which

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The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

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Topics: Changes Difficulty Fundamental Involved Observations

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One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

~Archibald Hill

Topics: After Breathes Exercise Knows Longer More Some Time Violent

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Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

~Archibald Hill

Topics: Daily Dead Fondly Him Imagine Large Many Meet Never People Poet Present Really Romance Scientists Some Suppose Tells Though Us Walking World

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Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

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Topics: Adventure Emphasis Essential Factor Human Human Progress Material Mental Perhaps Progress Spirit

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Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

~Archibald Hill

Topics: Always Best Come Corner Distant Fellowship Good Sympathy Understanding World

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Psychologist

Born: September 26th, 1886

Died: June 3rd, 1977

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