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Quotes About Corpuscles

I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.
~ August Krogh
I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
~ Woodrow Wilson
stimulated in us, the mere presence of corpuscles of flame is not by itself sufficient, and since movement is required in addition, it is with considerable reason that I declare motion to be the cause of heat.
~ Roger Ariew
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.
~ Marcel Proust
The surface of the shoes seemed to pulse with hundreds of reflections and refractions. In the firelight, it was like looking at boiling corpuscles of blood under a magnifying glass.
~ Gregory Maguire
Then these corpuscles are collected by scavenger cells and sent to the spleen for disposal. You discard about a hundred billion red blood cells every day. They are a big component of what makes your stools brown.
~ Bill Bryson
The web convulsed, splitting the dark patch into hundreds of peach-colored corpuscles that pulsed in different directions down the hollow strands. Digestion. The strands were both the spider and the web.
~ Nicola Griffith