"Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead:……" — Archibald Hill
"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."
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Archibald Hill
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7 Quotes by Archibald Hill
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The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on,…
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