When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave a new charter to biochemical thought, and with the discovery of vitamins that charter was extended. — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not only are facts gathered that [are] often new in kind, but it is in these regions that wholly new concepts arise. It is my own faith that just as the older biology from its faithful… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions... I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products from the animal that our… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share
When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
![“As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a few pioneers of its own, a promise of success; but for the furtherance of its essential aim that century left it but a small…” quote by Frederick Gowland Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/02c/frederick-gowland-hopkins-6018_acceptable_as-a-progressive-discipline-biochemistry_1804600.jpg)
