Abstraction Quote by Anonymous

“Life" is defined as the ability to absorb nutrients (of any kind) and to replicate, not just to exist.”

— Zecharia Sitchin

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively…

— Asa Gray

Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

— Aristotle

“Life as observed only from the scientific point of view is bare abstraction; it is not concrete life; nor is life as observed only…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are radically distinct in function. A short…

— Alfred Korzybski

We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we…

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many…

— Carl Sagan

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.

— Charles Kellogg

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist…

— Michael Jackson

Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater…

— Frank Herbert