"Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in……" — Charlton Laird

"Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage."

— Charlton Laird

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12 Quotes by Charlton Laird

Charlton Laird has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying…
Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations…
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it.…
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed…
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true…
Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write…
Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from…
The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass…
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at…

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More Amoebas Quotes

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Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade… — George Wald
We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're… — Danny Hillis
Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex. — Arthur Guiterman
Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals… — Viera Scheibner
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way… — Dave Matthews
Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a… — Margaret Atwood

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