Archibald Hill Professions : Psychologist Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Archibald Hill The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. Archibald Hill holidaymindworldknowledge One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it. Archibald Hill musclechangesplacegreat The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity. Archibald Hill changesinvolveddifficulty In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. Archibald Hill reachmusclegoprocess One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured. Archibald Hill moresomeexercisetime Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world. Archibald Hill dailywalkingpeopleworld Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue. Archibald Hill humanprogressspiritadventure Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world. Archibald Hill bestgoodsympathyworld Similar Authors Bruno Bettelheim psychologist Boris Sidis psychologist Anthony Greenwald psychologist Arnold Gesell psychologist Arno Gruen psychologist Anna Freud psychologistAll Authors
