Energy Quote by David Perlmutter

My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them…

— Lewis Thomas

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At…

— Lewis Thomas

“I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a…

— Mike Birbiglia

“Metabolically active cells, such as those of the liver, kidneys, muscles, and brain, have hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, making up some 40 per…

— Nick Lane

“The number of cells in your body outnumbers galaxies in the universe by 37 trillion.”

— James Temperton

Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human life, any human living conditions.”

— Rose Wilder Lane

“None of these systems, whether “natural” or man-made, can operate without a continuous supply of energy and resources that have to be transformed into…

— Geoffrey West

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

— Carl Sagan

“Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution”

— Carl Sagan

“Powering your thirteen-watt brain for a hundred years requires the energy in about half a milligram of matter—less than in a typical grain of…

— Max Tegmark

“Abundance is the unobstructed movement of life’s energy”

— Donna Goddard