Albumen Quotes (4 quotes)
I had come to the conclusion, that the principal alimentary matters might be reduced to the three great classes, namely the saccharine, the oily and the albuminous.
'On the Ultimate Composition of Simple Alimentary Substances; with some Preliminary Remarks on the Analysis of Organised Bodies in General', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1827), 117, 357.
I hereby bequeath to the Bide-a-Wee Home all people who have statistics to prove that a human
Is nothing but a combination of iron and water and potash and albumen.
That may very well be the truth
But it’s just like saying that a cocktail is nothing but ice and gin and vermouth.
Is nothing but a combination of iron and water and potash and albumen.
That may very well be the truth
But it’s just like saying that a cocktail is nothing but ice and gin and vermouth.
From 'Lines in Dispraise of Dispraise', Hard Lines (1931), 40.
I may not be proud of being a human
I object to having attention called to my iron and water and potash and albumen.
In the first place, it’s undignified,
And in the second place, nothing by it is signified.
I object to having attention called to my iron and water and potash and albumen.
In the first place, it’s undignified,
And in the second place, nothing by it is signified.
From 'Lines in Dispraise of Dispraise', Hard Lines (1931), 40.
The fibrous material and muscle were thus digested in the same way as the coagulated egg albumen, namely, by free acid in combination with another substance active in very small amounts. Since the latter really carries on the digestion of the most important animal nutrient materials, one might with justice apply to it the name pepsin.
'Ueber das Wesen des Verdauungsprocesses', Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medicin (1836), 90-138. Trans. L. G. Wilson, 'The Discovery of Pepsin', in John F. Fulton and Leonard G. Wilson (eds.), Selected Readings in the History of Physiology (1966), 191.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
