The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not… — Herbert Spencer Jennings Copy Share Image
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase 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
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Organisms we can’t see are accorded the same respect as those that are big and flashy or promise to give a nice… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature,… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as… — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism.… — Ursula Goodenough 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
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
The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of… — Richard Levins Copy Share Image
A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of… — Phillip E. Johnson 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
An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.” — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence. — Liz Greene 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
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a… — Czeslaw Milosz 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
The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our… — Zoe Leonard 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
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
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