protoplasm

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"People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm. It's not easy being Robert Redford," he once told New York magazine.

From BBC

In the mid-1800s others, such as Darwin's supporter Thomas Henry Huxley, began to suspect that there was a generic form of “living matter”—often called protoplasm—from which the most primitive life-forms were fashioned.

From Scientific American

“We just got a good lesson in how to be effective without moving protoplasm around,” he said.

From New York Times

Professor Huxley has not proved, and it is impossible for him to prove, that these protoplasms may not have essential points of difference.

From Scientific American

Even assuming the perspective of human egotism, think how many issues of profound importance to humanity lie within the protoplasm of the simplest microbe!

From Scientific American