“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000… The size… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which not only assures the preservation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All living organisms serve themselves, of course, but through language, we humans have the capacity to rationalize our self-service. — AnuPam Copy Share Image
We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
“Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic… — Natalia Rose Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder… — Robert Jastrow 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
This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts… — Louis Agassiz 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
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being… — Daphne Zuniga Copy Share Image
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile… — Paul Brooks Copy Share Image
That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“Living organisms are constructed, for the most part, from compounds of carbon and hydrogen. Carbon is critical because of its astonishing flexibility.… — David Christian Copy Share Image
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New… — Timothy Levitch Copy Share Image
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