The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
When we moved to Florida we experienced it on a communal level, in a more structured religious setting, with temples and different… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A… — G. Tyler Miller Copy Share Image
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the… — Daniel Mazia Copy Share Image
So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
So far, I've only sailed in the Caribbean. I've sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact.… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image