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Élie Metchnikoff Quotes

Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, also written as Élie Metchnikoff (15 May 1845 – 15 July 1916) was a Russian best known for his pioneering research in . He and were jointly awarded the 1908 .

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Alternative Names: Mechnikov • Ilya Metschnikoff • Elias Metschnikoff • Elie Metchnikoff • Ilja Iljitsch Metschnikov • Ilya Mecnikov • Ilya Mechnikov

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The duration of the life of men may be considerably increased. It would be true progress to go back to the simple dishes of our ancestors. … Progress would consist in simplifying many sides of the lives of civilised people.

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