Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates… — Friedrich Loeffler Copy Share Image
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day… — William James Copy Share Image
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and… — James Black Copy Share Image
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended… — Tom Feeney Copy Share Image
Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
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