Activity Quote by Frederick Gowland Hopkins

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine…

— Gregory Petsko

After a lot of research, scientists have concluded that the most vitamins are found in the pharmacy

— Hussein Nishah

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

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every…

— Ernest Starling

I must admit that when I chose the name, "vitamine," I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of…

— Casimir Funk

We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in…

— Arvind Gupta

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But…

— Philip Showalter Hench

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

— John Vane

The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases.…

— Bill Gates

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are…

— William McDonough

“The term vitamin was derived from vitamine, a word invented by Polish scientist Casimir Funk, who combined vital and amine to create “amine of…

— David B. Agus