Beast Quote by James Salter

Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do…

— Marcello Malpighi

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

— Rudy Rucker

“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical…

— William Barrett

Why Does every thing have to be so difficult?

— Mister Me

The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life…

— Allan Sandage

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

— Victor J. Stenger

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

— Ursus Wehrli

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

— Erwin Schrodinger

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

— Anonymous

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively…

— Asa Gray

All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Let it also be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and…

— Charles Darwin