Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme."
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Enzymes
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity."
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination."
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