Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Edison , Thomas Alva (1968-06), The diary and sundry observations of Thomas Alva Edison, Greenwood Pub Group, Retrieved on 2012-04-27Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: Memes
27 APR 2012
Edison Describes the Cells that Make Up the Body
What we call man is a mechanism made up of … uncrystallized matter … all the colloid matter of his mechanism is concentrated in a countless number of small cells. … [T]hese cells [are] dwelling places, communes, a walled town within which are many citizens. ... [T]hese are the units of life and when they pass out into space man as we think we know him is dead, a mere machine from which the crew have left,so to speak. ... [T]hese units are endowed with great intelligence. They have memories, t...Categorizing them into workers in a factory.