Protoplasm Quotes

10 quotes by 8 authors

• It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane
• The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy. — Marian Diamond
• 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
• People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm. — Robert Redford
• To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach… — Alfred Russel Wallace
• As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm… — Ernst Haeckel
• This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has… — Asa Gray
• I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in… — Rosalind Franklin
• Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley

Who Wrote These Protoplasm Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 10 Protoplasm Quotes as follows:

• 2 Protoplasm Quotes by John B. S. Haldane
• 1 Protoplasm Quote by Marian Diamond
• 1 Protoplasm Quote by Robert Redford
• 1 Protoplasm Quote by Alfred Russel Wallace
• 1 Protoplasm Quote by Ernst Haeckel
• 1 Protoplasm Quote by Asa Gray
• 1 Protoplasm Quote by Rosalind Franklin
• 1 Protoplasm Quote by Loren Eiseley