Biology Quote by Wilhelm Ostwald

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

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

— Robert Lanza

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

— Thomas Huxley

The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding…

— Theodor Schwann

The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed…

— Fritz Muller

There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic…

— Gerald A. Kerkut

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

“Living forms are not in being, they are happening, they are the expression of a perpetual stream of matter and energy which passes through…

— Bertalanffy Ludwig Von

“form follows evolution”

— William McDonoughdonough

The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a…

— Kurt Gödel

It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been…

— Charles Darwin

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology…

— Kenneth R. Miller