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
Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence… — Tom Bethell 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
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
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
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them… — Robert Koch 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
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
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river.… — C.E. Morgan 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
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing.… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
