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