Membrane Quotes

25 quotes by 25 authors

The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that… — E. O. Wilson
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is… — Hippocrates
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. — Nam June Paik
I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated… — August Kleinzahler
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the… — Lewis Thomas
Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They canâ€™t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't… — Andrew Vachss
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the… — B. W. Powe
But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes;… — Virginia Woolf
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea… — Maurice Maeterlinck
I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a… — Yusef Komunyakaa
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when… — Diane Setterfield
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a… — Michael Cunningham
For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by… — Kurt Vonnegut
I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is… — Libba Bray
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside… — Angela Carter
Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers… — C.S. Lewis
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess… — Steven Pressfield
The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond… — Sara Zarr

Who Wrote These Membrane Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 25 Membrane Quotes as follows: