Loewi Quotes & Sayings

Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned. — Otto Loewi

In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves. — Otto Loewi

On stage, I am in the dark. — Maria Callas

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young. — Wilkie Collins

Sometimes battles are unavoidable. — Shannon A. Thompson

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper. — Otto Loewi

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. — Billy Graham

Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on. — Georges Bataille

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. — Arianna Huffington

I'm mangled," I said. "On the inside and the outside. — Tarryn Fisher

Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the work of my colleagues has been able to give to it, can claim one practical result, in the specific, though alas only short, alleviation of the condition of myasthenia gravis, by eserine and its synthetic analogues. — Henry Hallett Dale