FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 340:397-398 February 4, 1999 Number 5 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited

By Knut Schmidt-Nielsen. 339 pp., illustrated. Washington, D.C., Island Press, 1998. $24.95. ISBN 1-55963-512-6.

It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists. I never made good grades in school. At times I nearly failed, and I never stopped asking questions. Indeed, I have spent most of my life asking questions and finding answers to how animals manage in the world around us.

So begins the autobiography of Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, professor emeritus of physiology and zoology at Duke University, who looks back on a life devoted to comparative physiology in its largest . . . [Full Text of this Article]

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.