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
Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist… — John Steinbeck 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
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or… — Andrew H. Knoll Copy Share Image
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the… — Daniel Mazia Copy Share Image
If humans are organisms like every other organism - which they are - then we should expect that if there are some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death… — Theodor Adorno 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
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. — Will Self Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken 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
If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
