German Zoologist Quotes

Oscar Hertwig

Rudolf Leuckart

Friedrich Tiedemann

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Rudolf Leuckart

Considered from the standpoint of chemistry, living bodies appear to us as laboratories of chemical processes, for they undergo perpetual changes in their material substrate. They draw materials from the outside world and combine them with the mass of their liquid and solid parts.

Friedrich Tiedemann

The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such is not likely to fall prey to the field of an advanced chemistry. The cell is itself an organism, constituted of many small units of life.

Among all the marvels of coloration which the animals of the deep sea exhibited to us nothing be even distantly compared with the hues of these [internal] organs [of the Thaumatolampus diadema ]. One would think that the body was adorned with a diadem of brilliant gems.