طاقة الحياة Quotes

“Were it not for the melanin in our skin, myoglobin in our muscles and haemoglobin in our blood, we would be the colour of mitochondria. And, if this were so, we would change colour when we exercised or ran out of breath, so that you could tell how energized someone was from his or her colour.”
― Guy Brown, The Energy of Life

“also believed that living processes within cells could be explained in terms of the physical structures and movements of the molecules. This was an important and influential insight which foreshadowed the spectacular explosion of cellular and molecular biology in the twentieth century. Though intensely religious, Schwann argued persuasively that the concept of a vital force was completely unnecessary, denying God’s achievement in originally producing the Universe and its physical forces: these were all that was necessary to create life.”
― Guy Brown, The Energy of Life

“Roman and Islamic worlds, and in Medieval and Renaissance Europe believed that whatever the Greeks thought was the unquestionable truth. The thoughts of the wise men of Greece on philosophy, science and medicine were held in the same awe and reverence as those of Moses, Jesus and Mohammed on religion and ethics. Now we know that many of the ‘truths’ discovered by the Greeks are ‘false’, but the forms of their ideas, the type of questions they asked, and the ways they went about answering them, have had a fundamental influence on the development of modern knowledge and ideas. Were it not for this relatively small number of thinkers in ancient and classical Greece, science, philosophy and western culture as we know them would not now exist.”
― Guy Brown, The Energy of Life