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"Amoeba" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... meaning than our own, these differences are nevertheless only those that exist between highly developed and inchoate language; they do not involve those that distinguish language from no language. They are the differences between the undifferentiated protoplasm of the amoeba and our own complex organisation; they are not the differences between life and no life. In animal language as much as in human there is a mind intentionally making use of a symbol accepted by another ...
— Essays on Life, Art and Science • Samuel Butler
... suffered a few failures, Simanovsky still obstinately continued to act upon the mind and imagination of Liubka. He tried to explain to her the theory of the origin of species, beginning with an amoeba and ending with Napoleon. Liubka listened to him attentively, and during this there was an imploring expression in her eyes: "When will you stop at last?" She yawned into a handkerchief and then guiltily explained: "Excuse me, that's from my nerves." Marx also had no ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin |
Words linked to "Amoeba" : endameba, rhizopodan, rhizopod, order Amoebida, genus Amoeba, ameba, amoebic, amoebous, Amoebina, Amoebida, amoeban, order Amoebina |
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