Zitat des Tages von Elie Metchnikoff:
Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.
Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.