Quotes About Protoplasm

As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.

Born to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element.

Those who maintain that mind is the reality and matter an evil dream are called idealists—a word which has a different meaning in philosophy from that which it bears in ordinary life. Those who argue that matter is the reality and mind a mere property of protoplasm are called materialists.

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Only a technological age could condemn unborn generations to exist in it, as if man were mere protoplasm, without emotion or aspiration.

When water freezes it expands; in cells, ice crystals can tear the protoplasm apart.