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Rudolph Virchow (13 Oct 1821 - died 5 Sep 1902) German pathologist and statesman who originated the concept that disease arises in the individual cells of a tissue and, with publication of his Cellular Pathology (1858), founded the science of cellular pathology. |
“If the
man of science chose to follow the example of historians and
pulpit-orators, and to obscure strange and peculiar phenomena by
employing a hollow pomp of big and sounding words, this would be his
opportunity; for we have approached one of the greatest mysteries which
surround the problem of animated nature and distinguish it above all
other problems of science. To discover the relations of man and woman
to the egg-cell would be almost equivalent of the egg-cell in the body
of the mother, the transfer to it by means of the seed, of the physical
and mental characteristics of the father, affect all the questions
which the human mind has ever raised in regard to existence.”
-- Rudolph Virchow (1848)
as quoted in The Evolution of Man, Vol 1, p.148 (1897)
by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
(source)
as quoted in The Evolution of Man, Vol 1, p.148 (1897)
by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
(source)
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