Albert Claude

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

Belgian Scientist

Cristina Saralegui

The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

Cuban Journalist

Harold Brodkey

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

American Author

Jenna Wortham

The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.

American Journalist

Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Danish Philosopher

Lynn Whitfield

The metamorphosis of people is so interesting. I guess that's why everybody loves before and afters, throwback Thursdays, and all that kind of thing.

American Actress

David Cassidy

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

American Actor

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

French Philosopher

Bhumi Pednekar

Acting, for me, is a process of metamorphosis. It's about forgetting who I am and becoming someone entirely new.

Indian Actress

Pooja Bhatt

Metamorphosis is important as long as we learn from everything.

Indian Director

Metamorphosis can describe non-physical changes in beliefs or knowledge.

Figurative Use

Literature and films often depict characters undergoing dramatic change as a metamorphosis.

Cultural References

Do not confuse with minor change; metamorphosis implies a profound or total change.

Common Misconception

In science, metamorphosis refers to a natural biological process, not artificial change.

Biological Specificity

Use this sense primarily in scientific or educational discussions about nature.

Correct Context

Do not use 'metamorphosis' for changes in non-living things in scientific contexts.

Avoid Misuse

Suggests an entirely new form, implying almost unrecognizable change.

Complete Change

Can carry a sense of wonder or awe at the change being described.

Emotional Connotation

 Why is it important to reboot? What does the red represent? Tell me a little bit about that part. A little more about you that is not who you are. What are some other metamorphoses that you've had? Doesn't have to be fear. What kind of roller coaster are you on? EEEEEE! No, thank you. Thanks for you patience.

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 joints you generate negative pressure in the joint itself and thus the dissolve gas is actually nucleate and that's the very similar phenomena that we actually observe in metamorphosis metamorphosis is a very difficult time because water is being lost from the shell and you

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 His tragicomic stories act as a form of mythology for the modern industrial age, employing dream logic to explore the relationships between systems of arbitrary power and the individuals caught up in them. Take, for example, Kafka's most famous story, "Metamorphosis."

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 the case I'm trying to make here is actually the value of curiosity driven science another example very recently two weeks ago before I got a call from Chris I was studying metamorphosis and we discovered a physical object that is fundamentally important for

Encouraging curiosity-dri...

 to forgo the demands of metamorphosis. However, they haven’t completely lost this ability. If exposed to certain substances, axolotls will turn into adults. But they’ll often experience shorter lifespans and lose some of their self-healing abilities.

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 which they eat and use as accommodation for their eggs. And then there's the insects' mighty power of metamorphosis. This trait not only transforms insects, but also helps them maximize the available resources in an ecosystem. Take butterflies.

Why are there so many...

 of a life stage that takes place inside the egg for some other insects. According to this hypothesis, over millions of years, the larvae evolved the ability to eat and live outside the egg. Regardless of how complete metamorphosis originated,

The weird and wonderful...

 the bounty they bring back will be enough to fuel the young males and queens through metamorphosis the queen is so close to achieving success within days of the battle her young fertile offspring have begun to spin their caps

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 amphibian specialist soap raise almost exclusively on amphibians and it's fought to have population declines itself which is almost as a direct result of amphibian populations as the tap hold metamorphosis into a

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 bounty they bring back will be enough to fuel the young males and Queens through metamorphosis

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