We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively… — Will Cuppy 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
Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative,… — Michael Ghiselin Copy Share Image
Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements… — Sri Aurobindo 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
Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop… — Al-Jahiz 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
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms. — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. — G. Ledyard Stebbins Copy Share Image
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs 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
In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald 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
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process… — D. H. Lawrence 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
What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image