August Krogh famous quotes
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The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical construction that has been or may hereafter be put upon them.
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We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.
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The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.
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In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
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Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
-- August Krogh
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
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Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
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The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
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