Oscar Hertwig Born : April 21, 1849 Died : October 25, 1922 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Oscar Hertwig The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such is not likely to fall prey to the field of an advanced chemistry. The cell is itself an organism, constituted of many small units of life. Oscar Hertwig life science fall