Biochemistry Quote by Claude Bernard

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

— Marcus Aurelius

An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that…

— Richard Mabey

...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.

— Theo van Doesburg

Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“let’s instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms)…

— Max Tegmark

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own…

— Richard Levins

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

— David Christian

“Life is easy to identify but remarkably difficult to define. Too tight a definition excludes what looks like life and too loose captures too…

— Peter Atkins

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag…

— Rodney Brooks

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

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature…

— Charles Darwin