William Patten (zoologist) Quote

Life is not an act apart, nor is it the product of any specific time, or place, or material. It is the offspring of the physical world; a transient phase of creative power in the universal whole.


The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist, Chapter IV (p. 85), Richard G. Badger. 1920


Life is not an act apart, nor is it the product of any specific time, or place, or material. It is the offspring of the physical world; a transient...

Life is not an act apart, nor is it the product of any specific time, or place, or material. It is the offspring of the physical world; a transient...

Life is not an act apart, nor is it the product of any specific time, or place, or material. It is the offspring of the physical world; a transient...

Life is not an act apart, nor is it the product of any specific time, or place, or material. It is the offspring of the physical world; a transient...