Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"The continuity of life through reproduction is nature's greatest achievement."
August Weismann
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"Life is not a ladder but a branching tree of endless possibility."
August Weismann
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"Life is endless variation played upon themes inherited from the past."
August Weismann
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"The germ line is sacred; it carries the potential of all future generations."
August Weismann
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"The organism is a fleeting expression of eternal hereditary substance."
August Weismann
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"The struggle for existence is not metaphorical; it is the literal condition of life."
August Weismann
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"Life is the only phenomenon that consistently improves through competition."
August Weismann
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"To live is to vary, and to vary is to be subject to selection."
August Weismann
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"What is selected is not the individual, but the line through which heredity flows."
August Weismann
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"Living beings are not fixed creations but products of their circumstances."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Life is not a collection of distinct forms but a continuous spectrum of being."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"To live is to adapt; to cease adapting is to begin the process of extinction."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Life's greatest lessons come from life's smallest inhabitants."
Jan Swammerdam
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"The insect's life, though brief, is full of purpose."
Jan Swammerdam
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"Life is a series of extinctions and resurrections, eternal transformation."
Georges Cuvier
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"The past lives within us still, encoded in our very structure."
Georges Cuvier
"The cost of living is not measured in money but in time."
Robert Hooke
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"Life's meaning emerges in the pursuit of understanding creation."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"I measure my life not in years but in observations made."
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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"The deepest principle of life is the craving to be appreciated."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Life is too short to hold grudges."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Life is a motion, not a state."
William Harvey
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"The heart beats with the rhythm of life."
William Harvey
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"The heart is the engine of existence."
William Harvey
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"The heart's motion is the motion of life itself."
William Harvey
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"The insect's life, though brief, is full of purpose and meaning."
Jan Swammerdam
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"To be curious is to be truly alive; to stop wondering is to begin to die."
Jan Swammerdam
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"Life is an unfoldment, and if you refuse to participate, you're refusing to live."
Hypatia of Alexandria
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"I am a body and mind. Both are magnificent."
Hypatia of Alexandria