Inorganic Quotes

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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
Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs. — Max Shulman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. — John Ambrose Fleming
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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