“ The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that crystals are formed by the s… Theodor Schwann
“ Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs. Steven Pinker
“ If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are radically distinct in function. A short analysis will disclose to us that, though minerals have vario… Alfred Korzybski
“ We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pain at that, with a little pleasure, very little, to string us along--a world where all organisms are… Thomas Ligotti
“ We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is… A.J. Darkholme
