The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time.… — George Dyson 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
You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade… — Gautama Buddha 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
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to… — David Wolfe 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
If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the… — August Krogh 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
It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living… — William Huggins Copy Share Image
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile… — Paul Brooks Copy Share Image
That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system… — Marc Hauser Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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