Amphibian Quotes (2)
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
Quoted in F. Klein, Elementary Mathematics From an Advanced Standpoint (1932), Vol 1, 56.
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The skeletal striated muscle cell of amphibia therefore resembles the cardiac striated muscle cell in the property of 'all or none' contraction.
'The 'All or None' Contraction of the Amphibian Skeletal Muscle Fibre', Journal of Physiology (1909), 38, 133.