Life

Life

Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate. Biology is the science concerned with the study of life.

Read more about Life.

Famous quotes containing the word life:

    “Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.”
    —Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958)

    “O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
    To spend that shortness basely were too long.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”
    —William James (1842–1910)