Carl Ludwig famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.
-- Carl Ludwig

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Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
-- Carl Ludwig

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Carl Ludwig famous quotes

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