“That’s life. Not the cliché, but literally: living organisms seek the best outcome available in any situation.” — David Bagby Copy Share Image
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening. — David Slade Copy Share Image
Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals. — David Christian Copy Share Image
The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for… — Antoine Bechamp Copy Share Image
It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence. — Liz Greene 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
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
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
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
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi 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 Watts Copy Share Image
When we moved to Florida we experienced it on a communal level, in a more structured religious setting, with temples and different… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 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
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far… — Frederick Soddy 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
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place… — Dolores LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible.… — George Wald 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
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
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
There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep … this vital energy is the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are… — Wolfgang Paul Copy Share Image
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change.… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image