Unworthy Quotes (2)
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.
'Investigations on Typhus', Nobel Lecture, 1928. In Nobel Lectures: Physiology or Medicine 1922-1941 (1965), 187.
See also: | Beast (4) | Brute (4) | Civilization (46) | Conclusion (28) | Contribution (7) | Honour (9) | Knowledge (341) | Lesson (4) | Louse (2) | Man (115) | Alfred Bernhard Nobel (6) | Parasite (14) | Primitive (4) | Resemblance (2) | Skin (2) | Teaching (10) | Transmission (2) | Typhus (2) | Ultimate (4)
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
— Plato
Quoted by Sophie Germain: Mémorie sur les Surfaces Élastiques. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica (1914), 211
See also: | Diagonal (2) | Fact (146) | Ignorant (2) | Man (115) | Name (19) | Side (2) | Square (3)
