Quotes & Sayings About Amoebas

If you let your mind dwell on rooms like this, you could end up being oddly sad and full of a strange diffuse compassion which would lead you to believe that it might be a good idea to wipe out the whole human race and start again with amoebas. — Terry Pratchett

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. — P. J. O'Rourke

Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage. — Charlton Laird

Amoebas cannot sin because they reproduce by fission. They do not covet wives or murder each other. — Ray Bradbury

Theory of Evolution (Summary)
First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management. — Scott Adams

How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ... no eight! — Bill Bailey

There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree. — Hugh Everett III

Greg's grin returned and I was happy to see it. "See? No vanity. You've lost the ability to care about bullshit that doesn't matter. You're a star, the center of a solar system, with no desire for the planets, asteroids, and moons caught in your gravitational field." "Who wants creepy planets anyway? Planets are amoebas, circling mindlessly in the vacuum of space. They're star stalkers of the worst sort." He continued to look at me like I was a treasure. "Planets are creepy, when you put it like that. — Penny Reid

The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the "I" out of the experience. We pretend that we are amoebas, and try to protect ourselves from life by splitting in two. Sanity, wholeness, and integration lie in the realization that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate "I" or mind can be found. — Alan W. Watts

Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex. — Arthur Guiterman

All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me. — Patrick Modiano

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas. — Danny Hillis

Why are you so interested in amoebas?"
"Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a
person is getting too complicated. — Margaret Atwood

Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals and humans. It is also quite well-established that amoebas are important contaminants of tissue cultures used in preparation of live biologicals, vaccines being the most important of them because they are widely injected into small babies and children. — Viera Scheibner

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas. — George Wald