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Xavier Bichat Quotes

1771–1802 France

Marie François Xavier Bichat (14 November 1771 – 22 July 1802) was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed.

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Also known as: Marie François Xavier Bichat

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One seeks the definition of life in abstract considerations: it will be found, I believe, in this general insight: life is that group of functions which resist death.
The mode of existence of living bodies is such in effect, that all which surrounds them tends to destroy them.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Xavier Bichat (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.