19th-century Biochemist Quotes

Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Selman Waksman
Casimir Funk

No philosopher's or poet's fancy, no myth of a primitive people has ever exaggerated the importance, the usefulness, and above all the marvelous beneficence of the ocean for the community of living things.

Now Time's Andromeda on this rock rude, With not her either beauty's equal or Her injury's, looks of by both horns of shore Her flower, her piece of being, doomed dragon's food.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
I must admit that when I chose the name, "vitamine," I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.

Casimir Funk
Casimir Funk
No man discovers, except by accident, who isn't inquisitive.

Organic chemistry is the child of medicine, and however far it may go on its way, with its most important achievements, it always returns to its parent.

The highest scientific award and honor presented to me the day before yesterday gives me the opportunity to summarize briefly the discovery and utilization of streptomycin for disease control, notably in the treatment of tuberculosis, the "Great White Plague" of man.

Selman Waksman
Selman Waksman
Biochemistry has an important bearing on the progress of medicine. But because of this, it must itself remain a pure science, whose initiates are inspired by a craving for understanding and by nothing else.

Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Truly, the history of oxygen is the history of life!