Eli Metchnikoff (quoted text)

Aging is a disease that should be treated like any other.

Aging is a disease that should be treated like any other.

Aging is a disease that should be treated like any other.

Science alone can lead suffering humanity into the right path.

Science alone can lead suffering humanity into the right path.

Science alone can lead suffering humanity into the right path.

Sensing that my hunch concealed something particularly interesting, I became so excited that I began striding up and down the room.

Sensing that my hunch concealed something particularly interesting, I became so excited that I began striding up and down the room.

Sensing that my hunch concealed something particularly interesting, I became so excited that I began striding up and down the room.

Our strong will to live runs counter to the infirmities of old age and the shortness of life. That's greatest disharmony of human nature.

Our strong will to live runs counter to the infirmities of old age and the shortness of life. That's greatest disharmony of human nature.

Our strong will to live runs counter to the infirmities of old age and the shortness of life. That's greatest disharmony of human nature.

This instinct must be accompanied by marvelous sensations, better than any other we are capable of experiencing.

This instinct must be accompanied by marvelous sensations, better than any other we are capable of experiencing.

This instinct must be accompanied by marvelous sensations, better than any other we are capable of experiencing.

Perhaps the anxious search for the purpose of human life is nothing but a vague yearning for this anticipation of natural death.

Perhaps the anxious search for the purpose of human life is nothing but a vague yearning for this anticipation of natural death.

Perhaps the anxious search for the purpose of human life is nothing but a vague yearning for this anticipation of natural death.

I discovered that one and all felt as if they were continually being threatened by death, as if they were convicts awaiting the day of execution. At the Salpêtrière, the great ambition of women of 80 is to live to 100, and the desire to live is almost universal.

I discovered that one and all felt as if they were continually being threatened by death, as if they were convicts awaiting the day of execution. At the Salpêtrière, the great ambition of women of 80 is to live to 100, and the desire to live is almost universal.