The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our…

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

— John B. S. Haldane

I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a…

— Thomas Hood

“You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard.”

— Richard Matheson

“Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!”

— Richard Matheson

Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it…

— Thomas Huxley

“We may regard the cell quite apart from its familiar morphological aspects, and contemplate its constitution from the purely chemical standpoint. We are obliged…

— Paul Ehrlich

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

— Marian Diamond

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

“the major relational problem for our species is not getting together; protoplasm loves to join. The problem is preserving self in a close relationship.…

— Edwin H Friedman

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which…

— Asa Gray

It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of…

— Germaine Greer

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical…

— Frank Moore Cross

I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not…

— Thom Andersen

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard…

— Matthew Lesko