#digest

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #chemical #complex #complex system #connections

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#century #digest #mid #psychology #state

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. ↗

— Zona Gale

#digestion #good #good digestion #i #know

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#been #digested #i #influenced #lambs

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#digest #eating #empty #ignorant #men

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#digests #how #into #like #mind

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do. ↗

— Septima Clark

#any #digestion #eating #felt #getting

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#digest #everything #learn #move #move on

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#birds #come #contact #digest #happens