Inorganic Quotes
35 quotes by 34 authors
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the…
— Charles Lyell
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Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.
— Max Shulman
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means…
— George Miller Sternberg
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This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides…
— Friedrich Wohler
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There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.…
— Gerald A. Kerkut
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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent…
— William S. Burroughs
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Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e.,…
— Karl Marx
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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,…
— Charles Darwin
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Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or…
— Nikola Tesla
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Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth…
— Fritjof Capra
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We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
— John Ambrose Fleming
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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
— Oliver Lodge
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies…
— Chauncey Wright
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We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,…
— Medard Boss
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All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its…
— Christopher Alexander
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In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge…
— Hannah
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What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure,…
— George Perkins Marsh
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