Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. — Victor Francis Hess Copy Share Image
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas. — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke… — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and… — Carl Woese Copy Share Image
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain… — Eugene Odum Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future,… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend 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 Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. — John Tooby Copy Share Image
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. — G. Ledyard Stebbins Copy Share Image
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
