Change Quote by Asa Gray

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

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

— Swami Vivekananda

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in…

— Annie Besant

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Living forms are not in being, they are happening, they are the expression of a perpetual stream of matter and energy which passes through…

— Bertalanffy Ludwig Von

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

— John B. S. Haldane

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for…

— Alan Watts

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

— Michael Behe

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

— Herbert Spencer

As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

“Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard