Hans Selye
Hans Selye
János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye, CC, was a pioneering Austrian-Canadian endocrinologist of Hungarian origin. He conducted much important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. Although he did not recognize all of the many aspects of glucocorticoids, Selye was aware of their role in the stress response. Charlotte Gerson considers him the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 January 1907
CountryCanada
Complete freedom from stress is death
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise
Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.
Stress is the spice of life.
To be totally without stress is to be dead.
Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Fight for your highest attainable aim/ But never put up resistance in vain.
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.'
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.