The Theory of Knowledge

The discovery of the cell as the structural base of animals and plants refuted the metaphysical idea of the existence of an unbridgeable gulf between animals and plants. Experimental substantiation of the law of conservation and transformation of energy showed that motion and energy neither arise nor disappear, that what happens is merely an equivalent transition of one form of energy to another. In other words, none of the dividing lines in nature are, contrary to the metaphysical view, an absolute barrier to reciprocal transformations, including transformations expressive of the process of development.

Prof. B.I. Syusyukalov & Prof. L.A. Yakovleva