Propel Quotes (3 quotes)
In the equilibrium of the vernal equinox, we find a moment of cosmic serenity—a fleeting balance between opposing forces that propels us into the blooming embrace of springtime.
A fictional quote imagined in the style typical of a scientist (19 Mar 2024).
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.
In New Dietetics: What to Eat and How (1921), 29.
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life’s pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.
In The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (1987, 2010), 16.