Biology Quote by Charles Darwin

Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

— Leslie Orgel

“Look at any randomly selected piece of your world. Encoded deep in the biology of every cell in every blade of grass, in every…

— Brian Cox

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the…

— Terence McKenna

“Let it also be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and…

— Charles Darwin

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

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

— Thomas Huxley

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

— Rudy Rucker

“Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity is attained.…

— John D. Barrow

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

— David Christian

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

— Plotinus