biology Quotes

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Worms are the intestines of the earth.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Some animals dig in the ground; others don't. Some animals are active at night, like the owl and bat; others are active during the day. There are tame animals and wild animals. Humans and mules are always tame; leopards and... ...

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have... ...

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there... ...

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have... ...