In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — George Miller Sternberg Copy Share Image
Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you're gonna tell a story from beginning to end, I always think you have to have a great structure in a… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the… — James Balog Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time.… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members,… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
We all shared this experience. We all had one brain, we were one giant organism working and having joy. "What about Walken?"… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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