Archibald Hill quotes

Archibald Hill was an English physiologist and biophysicist, renowned for his pioneering research on muscle physiology and energy metabolism. His discoveries helped shape the modern understanding of how muscles produce and use energy during exercise. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking work. Here are 6 of his quotes:

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

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Archibald Hill

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

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

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