The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.


Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen (1839). Microscopic Researches into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants, trans. Henry Smith (1847)

Theodor Schwann Quotes

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.