Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's… — Sheila E Copy Share Image
But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I'm after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real… — Ron Galella Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating… — Charlene Li Copy Share Image
“Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging… — Sylvia Clare Copy Share Image
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Be spontaneous! When was the last time you did something completely out of character? You have to open yourself to trying new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I don’t really have a process. I’m very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I… — Sophie Turner Copy Share Image
As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi; — Mitsugi Saotome Copy Share Image
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the… — Max Minghella Copy Share Image
For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“If you stay in the moment, you’ll have what is called spontaneous right action, which is intuitive, which is creative, which is… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image