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Favorite Quotes
These are some of my favorite quotes:
- Our
task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
-
If I have seen farther, it is because I have stood on the backs of
giants.
- The
strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
- The
condition of exercise is not a mere variant of the condition of rest,
it is the essence of the machine.
-
Sir Joseph Barcroft (1934)
- In
as much as the physiology of exercise is actually the total physiology
of a nonresting, nonsupine individual, all areas of physiology are
essential because there is no physiological function, regulation, or
control that is not vital (i.e., exercise physiology = physiology in
toto).
- [Q] Where do you see the exercise
science field (particularly your area of greatest interest) heading in
the next 20 years?
[A] This field may play a more vital role in the biological sciences
than we had once imagined. If the basic life scientist’s rush to
apply their expertise to provide functional meaning to the genetic
code, as is expected, who will be left to teach basic human biology
and physiology? Who will explore the functional consequences of
aging, for example? Who will discover what controls breathing and the
circulation during exercise? Who will do the systematic, integrative
science that reveals how whole organ systems and organisms actually
work? These questions are not likely to be answered by reductionists
(e.g., molecular biologists) working upward from molecules to cells to
systems – this is in the wrong direction!
-
Loring B. Rowell, Ph.D. [As cited in McArdle, Katch, & Katch’s
Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance, 5th
Edition. (2001)]
- Good
information is the best medicine.
- I do
not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself
in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than
ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
-
Sir Isaac Newton [Cited in Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man.
(1973)]
- A living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the
most marvelous properties and set going by means of the most complex
and delicate mechanism.
-
Claude Bernard [Cited in Introduction to the History of Modern
Experimental Medicine. (1957)]
- A
man must go to the mountains for health, but also to get a true
insight into things.
-
General William Jackson Palmer
- It
takes time to take care of yourself.
- It
takes a very long time to become young.
- When
you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink
and glue – you sell him a whole new life.
-
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.
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