Sense/definition

Famous quotes containing the words sense and/or definition:

“I thought it would last my time
The sense that, beyond the town,
There would always be fields and farms....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“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)