2:51 PM
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Genes R Us
M. Schleiden was one in the long parade of weird science personalities:
he started out with a failed career in law, tried to commit suicide, resulting in a bullet lodging in his brain (lol how amazing was that!), became a doctor, and failing at that, switched to botany, at which he was successful (finally!!)
He found a good partner in Schwann, who after hearing about the existence of cell nuclei in plants from Schleiden, checked for their existence in animal tissues, and indeed found them. It had not been obvious that animals and plants both are in a similar way composed of tissues which are made up of cells. After that, he wrote a treatise, supposedly without crediting anyone but himself, about the cell theory.
Today, we can laugh at the foolishness and ignorance of the old, but we cannot be ungrateful of their inquisitive minds and extraordinary expeditions in the scientific world.
Hahaha. That was a cute one.
We reap on what he sowed.
A monk talking about family planning... haha.
