Biological Tradition

Famous quotes containing the words biological and/or tradition:

“Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.”
—The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)

“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)