Body Quote by Claude Bernard

The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured…

— Claude Bernard

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

— Claude Bernard

“Philosophically defined, growth is the struggle of life to control its environment or, rather, to include more and more of its environment within the…

— Manly P. Hall

The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved…

— Walter Bradford Cannon

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what…

— John Dewey

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

— Pierre Reverdy

“To find stability within the world, one must first find stability within.”

— Tyler J. Hebert

“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism is designed…

— Marilynne Robinson

“As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight and leaky,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Organs are supple and capable of adapting to different situations and domains. Finally, they are open to development, and this is precisely what “stable…

— Ulrich Müller

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.

— Marie Curie