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Psychologist
September 26
, 1886 -
June 3
, 1977
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
Archibald Hill
Knowledge
Holiday
World
Mind
One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
Archibald Hill
Great
Place
Muscle
Changes
The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
Archibald Hill
Changes
Difficulty
Involved
In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion.
Archibald Hill
Go
Process
Reach
Muscle
One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
Archibald Hill
Time
More
Exercise
Some
Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.
Archibald Hill
Daily
People
World
Walking
Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.
Archibald Hill
Adventure
Progress
Spirit
Human
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
Archibald Hill
Best
Good
World
Sympathy
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