William Patten (zoologist) Quote

A solar system... has attributes and powers that cannot be defined or measured in terms of its members, or of its ultimate chemical elements, for a solar system is not merely an aggregate, or the algebraic sum of its various elements and qualities... It is a system, a new type of individuality, with special creative powers of its own.


The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist, Chapter I (p. 34), Richard G. Badger. 1920


A solar system... has attributes and powers that cannot be defined or measured in terms of its members, or of its ultimate chemical elements, for a...

A solar system... has attributes and powers that cannot be defined or measured in terms of its members, or of its ultimate chemical elements, for a...

A solar system... has attributes and powers that cannot be defined or measured in terms of its members, or of its ultimate chemical elements, for a...

A solar system... has attributes and powers that cannot be defined or measured in terms of its members, or of its ultimate chemical elements, for a...