Otto Loewi Quotes

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

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

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

What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan)
As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn't end soon, I might get out of practice. (Otto) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. ~ Otto Hermann Kahn

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition. ~ Otto Hahn

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. ~ Otto Rank

All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war) ~ Otto Graham

Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment. ~ Otto Preminger

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here ... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge. ~ Jim Otto

The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end. ~ Otto Weininger

It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius, do not bow to an alien law. The rest try to justify their doings and misdoings, their thinking and existence (at least the menial side of it), to some one else, whether it be the personal God of the Jews, or a beloved, respected, and revered human being. It is only in this way that they can bring their lives under the social law ... ~ Otto Weininger

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man. ~ Otto Weininger

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling. ~ Bette Midler

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life. ~ Otto Frank

Otto suspected that Franz would have been quite prepared to go to lunch naked if that was what was necessary and, despite his best efforts, a mental image of this formed that Otto feared might haunt him for ever.

Wing looked at him with concern. 'Are you all right, Otto? You've gone quite pale. Is the Contessa trying to manipulate you again?'

In Otto's mind's eye a naked Franz was pouring baked beans straight from the tin into his mouth.

'No, Wing, it's much worse than that . . . ~ Mark Walden

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me. ~ Otto Schily

Well,' Otto gave a sly smile, 'I just happened to come across this keycard last night, and it looked like it might come in handy.'

'That keycard was secured in the vault, Mr Malpense,' Ms Leon said sharply, 'a vault that is supposed to be impregnable, I might add.'

'Someone must have left the door open,' Otto replied, a look of false innocence on his face. 'That's the only explanation I can think of. ~ Mark Walden

Small sacrifices must be made. ~ Otto Lilienthal

I think the Stealth and Evasion lesson was the strangest,' Lucy said. 'Not so much the lesson as the teacher actually. I mean . . . Ms Leon. She's . . . well . . .'

'A cat?' Otto offered with a cheery smile.

'Yeah . . . yeah, that's really the only way of putting it,' Lucy said, sounding slightly bewildered.

'Don't worry, you get used to it,' Shelby said. 'Besides, it's only when the giant mutated flesh-eating plants and android ninjas are around that things really get weird.'

Lucy started to laugh but stopped when she saw the expression on the other students' faces.

'That was a joke, right?' Lucy asked. ~ Mark Walden

We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues. ~ Otto Perez Molina

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. ~ Miranda Otto

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge. ~ Frei Otto

He who begets something which is alive must dive down into the primeval depths in which the forces of life dwell. And when he rises to the surface, there is a gleam of madness in his eyes because in those depths lives cheek by jowl with life. The primal mystery is itself mad - the matrix of the duality and the unity of disunity. ~ Walter F. Otto

There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be. ~ Jim Otto

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return. ~ Otto Frank

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world. ~ Otto Weininger

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act. ~ Otto Preminger

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it ~ Otto Von Bismarck

I never think anyone in love is foolish. We do the best we can. ~ Whitney Otto

I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone. ~ Frei Otto

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves ~ Otto Frank

All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies. ~ Otto Penzler

We shouldn't just always talk about human rights; we should also point out human obligations. ~ Otto Carius

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves ~ Otto Von Bismarck

Acting is a freelance career ... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. ~ Miranda Otto

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. ~ Otto Lilienthal

Every director is completely different. ~ Miranda Otto

So far as one understands a man, one is that man. The man of genius takes his place in the above argument as he who understands incomparably more other beings than the average man. Goethe is said to have said of himself that there was no vice or crime of which he could not trace the tendency in himself, and that at some period of his life he could not have understood fully. The genius, therefore, is a more complicated, more richly endowed, more varied man; and a man is the closer to being a genius the more men he has in his personality, and the more really and strongly he has these others within him. ~ Otto Weininger