As if deformity were spontaneously generated.
He thought that worms were spontaneously generated from wet soil, that earthquakes were the result of winds caught in underground caverns, that the sun circled the earth.
The libertarian imagination, amply furnished with metaphors of invisible hands and spontaneously generated order, is thrilled by such technological empowerment.
Alchemy was once broadly dismissed as a form of primitive, pre-scientific belief -- like Aristotle's conviction that lice were spontaneously generated from flesh, or claims that human life was created in the forms of homunculi.
Studies have suggested that signs of spontaneously generated night terrors and nightmares may be related to abrupt awakening from deep sleep that experimentally appears dreamless.
Even though it was clear that large animals developed from fertile eggs, there was still hope that smaller beings, microorganisms, spontaneously generated from debris.
The column also provides a place for sharp insights and good lines that might otherwise go unshared: "When John Legend first appeared, he seemed spontaneously generated by the Grammy Awards," for instance, or, writing about Kacey Musgraves's "Follow Your Arrow," "It's not the rebellion that sells the song, it's the coyness".
spontaneously generated coherence.
These fluids are spontaneously generated by self-assembly.
The same spontaneously generated waves are likely creating the grooved appearance seen across the B ring, says Spitale.
Holding a phone to one ear has been shown to restrict the range of spontaneously generated head movements.
