No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet. — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative". — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to… — George Lucas 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
When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was… — Thom Hartmann 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
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve… — Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if… — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. — Victor Francis Hess 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
If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates… — Friedrich Loeffler Copy Share Image
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image