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“The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.”

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Lorenz Oken, born on August 1, 1779 and died on August 11, 1851, was a prominent German naturalist. He made significant contributions to the fields of biology, philosophy, and art. more

“All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.”

Mind Humans Made Matter Body Hands Science Simple Perfect Complicated Invention Mutual Devices Human Mind Mechanism Delicate Toys Accurate Human Body Adjustment Intricate Human Hands

Author:John Harvey Kellogg

“I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.”

Humans Science Asks Clear Calling Notion Spokes Meaningless Annoyed Appease Unintelligent

Author:Peter Medawar

“Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.”

Men Humans States Science Order Natural Human Beings Animal Effects Strange Involved Creatures Universal Plant Species Defined Inevitable Perpetual Minerals Flux Monstrosity

Author:John Dewey

“The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.”

Humans Soul Body Science Force United Human Soul Magnetic Magnetic Force

Book:De Magnete

Source: De Magnete

“We share half our genes with the banana.”

Humans Science Half Share Genes Bananas Human Genome Project

Author:Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

“Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.”

Humans Science Stars Butterfly Elephants Vary Expectancy Life Expectancy

Book:A Star Called the Sun

Source: A Star Called the Sun

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”

“Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.”

Speak Type Islands Farms Breeding Aristocracy Studs Rhode Island

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then each of these parts can serve as the mould for the production of a replica of the other part, and the complex of two complementary parts thus can serve as the mould for the production of duplicates of itself.”

Ifs Two Structure Complexes Productions Genes Viruses Molecules Mould Complementary Duplicate Replica

Book:Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences

Source: Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences

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