Quotes About Photosynthesis

#1. The essential thing is to recognize that consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis;

Ray Kurzweil

#2. A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.

Cynthia Kenyon

#3. At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis - about which more later - but in all likelihood you were taught nothing about death, risk, statistics, and the science of what will kill or cure you.

Ben Goldacre

#4. We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to drive photosynthesis. That has been, throughout the history of our species, pretty stable. Until recently.

Sylvia Earle

#5. Regular adult Americans are no more capable of doing math than they are of photosynthesis.

Dave Barry

#6. The rate of photosynthesis is the same for all the trees. The trees, it seems, are equalizing differences between the strong and the weak.

Peter Wohlleben

#7. These kids today. Back then, we couldn't afford photosynthesis. We had to build oxygen from scratch with an atom smasher.

Tim Hensley

#8. This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image.

Julian Schnabel

#9. A rising tower of wood and needles and branches and great slabs of bark that has grown for hundreds of years. An impossible castle made from air and sunlight, fixed in place by the power of photosynthesis and chlorophyll. Magic. With lights.

Ned Hayes

#10. Science is spectrum analysis. Art is Photosynthesis.

Karl Kraus

#11. There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

Janine Benyus

#12. The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

Wangari Maathai

#13. The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.

Craig Venter

#14. Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.

Mike DeGruy

#15. When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Jeff VanderMeer

#16. I was clinging to this tree so passionately that I might very well have committed an act of photosynthesis with it.

Dave Barry

#17. I listened to Karen Woo give an explaination of photosynthesis once," he said. "God only knows why they were discussing photosynthesis.They hung on her every word, like she was a PBS special. Her explaination didn't even involve sunlight. These people will believe anything. They will say anything.

Joshua Ferris

#18. It called to mind something ancient, something pre-evolutionary, or else perhaps a mark of photosynthesis, and he realized to his surprise that there was nothing at all sexual about it; it was more vegetal than sexual.

Han Kang

#19. There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis and water-use efficiency.

Keith E. Idso

#20. We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#21. Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Emil Cioran

#22. She hesitated slightly. "I've seen what was called telekinesis with dice - but I'm no mathematician and I could not testify that what I saw was telekinesis." "Hell's bells, you wouldn't testify that the sun had risen if the day was cloudy.

Robert A. Heinlein

#23. A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.

Tsutomu Nihei

#24. You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough!

The Miz

#25. As we raise ourselves in the spiritual consciousness, we are better able to solve the problems of life. We are happy. We are at home in every environment.

Harold Klemp

#26. I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me.

Steven Magee

#27. Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days.

Luciano Vincenzoni

#28. In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

L. Ron Hubbard

#29. A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that."

Tony Hsieh

#30. I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

Amy Hempel

#31. If it was the warmth of the sun, and not its light, that produced this operation, it would follow, that, by warming the water near the fire about as much as it would have been in the sun, this very air would be produced; but this is far from being the case..

Jan Ingenhousz

#32. Neither. I was attracted to him because he's hot. Though, I stayed with him because he's fucking awesome in bed.

Laurelin Paige

#33. Logic tells us that there is an end to everything, but then, Christ died on the cross, now there's a forever

Nano