If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days)… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system… — Marc Hauser Copy Share Image
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. — Will Self Copy Share Image
There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive… — Alycia Debnam Carey Copy Share Image
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents,… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Out of trillions of organisms that were alive at the beginning of time, are alive now and will be alive at the… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living… — William Huggins Copy Share Image
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
