From tooth mucus to Newtonian torsion, from crystallization to Schwann cells

That's when another scientist named Rudolph Virchow,stepped in with research showing that cells did come from other cells,research that was actually --hmm ... How to put it? --"borrowed without permission"from a Jewish scientist by the name of Robert Remak,which led to two more feuding scientists.Thus, from teeth gunk to torquing off Newton, crystallization to Schwann cells,the cell theory came to be an important part of biology today.Some things we know about science today may seem boring,but how we came to know them is incredibly fascinating.So if something bores you,dig deeper.It's probably got a really weird story behind it somewhere.