Arise Quote by 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

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

It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a…

— William Buckland

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

— Theo van Doesburg

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

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“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

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance.…

— Bertrand Russell

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as…

— Edward Forbes

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

There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode,…

— Martin Rees