Organisms Quotes

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

— Kevin Kelly

Families are complex organisms.

— Mark Getty

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

— Richard Powers

A library is a growing organism.

— S. R. Ranganathan

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

— Jamie Hyneman

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

— Bertrand Russell

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

— Walter Gilbert

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

— Howard Warren Buffett

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

— Emma Goldman

If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.

— Mark Roth

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

— Antonio Damasio

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

— Kevin Kelly

In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around…

— Antonio Damasio

In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need…

— Jacques Diouf

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its…

— John Steinbeck

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of…

— Joseph Rickaby

I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its…

— Emo Philips

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms…

— E. O. Wilson

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change.…

— Andy Grove

For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could…

— Noam Chomsky

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the…

— Daniel Dennett

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

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a…

— Jeremy Jackson

Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the…

— Hilaire Belloc

Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future,…

— Emma Lazarus

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

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…

— Edward Abbey

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

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to…

— Gregory Bateson

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature…

— Robert Frenay

A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and…

— Robert Reed

The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive.…

— Wilhelm Reich

I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism…

— Pantha du Prince

All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority…

— Susan Blackmore

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own…

— Lyall Watson

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

— Hattie Morahan

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe