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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

Topics: Centuries Complete Conception Development Followed Found Greek Harmony Life Most Nature Rationalism Renaissance

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Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

~Elie Metchnikoff

Topics: Concerns Health Interest Public Public Interest Real Whatever

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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

Topics: Again Danger Disease Does Everyone Exposed Households Life Lives Members Often Same Schools Seen Strike Troops Where

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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

Topics: Among Animals Could Cure Disease Domestic Immunity Infection Lower Man Natural Observed Organizations Pathological Phenomena Prerogative Quite See Simple Them Very

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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.

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Topics: Almost Always Animals Higher Intervention Man Phenomenon Results Some Understood

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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

Topics: Conditions Deeply Doubt Human Human Life Interest Life Material Moral No Doubt People Philosophical Powerless Questions Said Science Solve Those

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

~Elie Metchnikoff

Topics: Above Among Ancient Esteem Greeks Held High Human Human Nature Nature World

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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

Topics: Adoration Appeared Art Cause Excellence Greek Greeks Human Human Nature Nature Plastic

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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

Topics: Able Been Functions Mentally Most Physical Qualities See Studied Them Whom

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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

Topics: Age Aroused Attention Been Biologist Case Causes Course Had His Natural Noticing Old Old Age Own Phenomena Precocious Quite Should Study Turn Whose

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Scientist

Born: May 16th, 1845

Died: July 16th, 1916

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