Russian Biologist Quotes

Élie Metchnikoff

Trofim Lysenko

Konstantin Mereschkowski

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Whenever the organism enjoys immunity, the introduction of infectious microbes is followed by the accumulation of mobile cells, of white corpuscles of the blood in particular which absorb the microbes and destroy them.

Élie Metchnikoff

The select who engage in science must look upon knowledge as a treasure entrusted to their care, but belonging to the whole people.

Kliment Timiryazev

Above all, a plant, an oak for example, is an animal. An enormous animal in which live parasites or rather symbionts, an infinite multitude of small microscopic green organisms, of the species of unicellular "algae," cyano-phyceae.

Konstantin Mereschkowski