Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel Price in Physiology:
Life was born in water and is carrying on in water. Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. Life could leave the ocean when it learned to grow a skin, a bag in which to take the water with it. We are still living in water, having the water now inside.
Biology and pathology of water. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 14 (2): 239, 1971.
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