"Protoplasm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gained considerable velocity. Its upper portion is slowly twisted through the opening in the apex of the parent wall, the granular contents of the lower end flowing into the extruded portion in a manner reminding one of the flow of protoplasm in a living amoeba. The old cell wall seems to offer considerable resistance to the escape of the gonidium, for the latter, which displays remarkable elasticity, is pinched nearly in two while forcing its way through, assuming an hour glass shape when about half out. The rapid rotation ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various
... the doctrine of progress. With him protoplasm is the Yliastron, the Prima Materies. Our word matter is derived from the Sanskrit {Sanskrit} (mtr), which, however, signifies properly the invisible type of visible matter; in modern language, the substance distinct from ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... need wish to be anything better. I should like to know,' cried the professor angrily, 'where we should all be without Protoplasm.' ...
— 'That Very Mab' • May Kendall and Andrew Lang
... many separate lines of evolution, one ending in the humming-bird, another in the hippopotamus, a third in the kangaroo, etc., and their pedigrees (however far back they might be traced) would not join until they reached some primitive form of protoplasm,—Yours faithfully, ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant
... were, with the alphabet set out in pictures. You are told by sagacious professors,—who after all are no more than children in their newly studied wisdom,—that human life was evolved in the first instance from protoplasm—as they THINK,—but they lack the ability to tell you how the protoplasm was itself evolved—and WHY; where the material came from that went to the making of millions of solar systems and trillions of living organisms concerning whose existence we have no knowledge or perception. Some ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
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