"The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls."
British physiologist who shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on muscle heat production and energy metabolism. He was also active in science policy and public service. He died in 1977.