Martinus Beijerinck quotes
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“In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to a complex wheel-work, such as a watch which ceases to exist if it is stamped down in a mortar. No, in its primitive form life is like fire, like a flame borne by the living substance;-like a flame which appears in endless diversity and yet has specificity within it;-which can adopt the form of the organic world, of the lank grass-leaf and of the stem of the tree.”
-- Martinus Beijerinck
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.”
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“Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.”
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