My hands always sell like garlic.

The [Hungarian] doctor Ignaz Semmelweis was laughed out of his profession when he insisted in 1857 that fewer women would die in childbirth in the obstetric wards of Viennese hospitals if doctors and medical students simply washed their hands after dissecting cadavers in the hospital basement before attending the labor ward. Maddened by the hostility and criticism of his colleagues, Semmelweis was committed to an asylum, where he died in 1865.

- Holism and Complimentary Medicine: Origins and Principles

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.