Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest…

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled…

— Carl Sagan

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.…

— Bill Bryson

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

— Antonio Damasio

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation,…

— Deepak Chopra

Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more…

— John Spiers

I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical…

— Wolfgang Paul

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on…

— E. O. Wilson

Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating…

— Marc Hauser

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in…

— Joseph Beuys

To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and…

— Robert Koch

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

— Marilynne Robinson

Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our…

— Michel Foucault

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel