We naturally assume that our mental structures are universal. But I suppose an outside biologist looking at us would see something very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days)… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be… — Theodor Schwann Copy Share Image
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck 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
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers… — Joseph Weizenbaum 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
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann 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
We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak.… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically,… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg 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
You have to be able to grow and move with the organism that is the music industry. You need to maintain flexibility.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as… — William S. Burroughs 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
For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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