"Just as in any discussion of parts or equipment we must not think that it is the matter to which attention is being directed or which is the object of the discussion, but rather the conformation as a whole (a house, for example, rather than bricks, mortar and timber), in the same way we must think that a discussion of nature is about the composition and the being as a whole, not about parts that can never occur in separation from the being they belong to."-- Parts of Animals, Book I, Chapter 5