Organisms Quotes

“Genetically modified organisms. You are what you eat…”

— Michael R. Hicks

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

— Erwin Schrodinger

All organisms are a science.

— Jeremy Limn

Families are complex organisms.

— Mark Getty

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

— Richard Powers

A library is a growing organism.

— S. R. Ranganathan

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

— Jamie Hyneman

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later.

— Fred Ehrsam

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

— Jerry Saltz

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

— Walter Gilbert

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

— James Balog

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need…

— Jacques Diouf

In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around…

— Antonio Damasio

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that…

— Tara Brach

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism…

— J. G. Holland

“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its…

— John Steinbeck

Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile,…

— William Sims

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its…

— Emo Philips

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…

— Donna J. Haraway

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an…

— H. L. Mencken

The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view…

— Adam Nicolson

The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for…

— Karl Landsteiner

You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions…

— Joe Rogan

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms…

— E. O. Wilson

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have…

— Alan Watts

The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is…

— Kim Jong Il

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…

— Edward Abbey

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature…

— Robert Frenay

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to…

— Gregory Bateson

A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and…

— Robert Reed

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a…

— Jeremy Jackson

Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place…

— Dolores LaChapelle

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

— Emma Goldman