The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents,… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful… — Paul Ormerod 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
When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. — Will Self Copy Share Image
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain… — Eugene Odum Copy Share Image
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“What's a „culture“? Look it up. „A group of micro-organisms grown in a nutrient substance under controlled conditions“. A squirm of germs… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of… — Steven Pinker 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
“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive… — Alycia Debnam Carey Copy Share Image
“Out of trillions of organisms that were alive at the beginning of time, are alive now and will be alive at the… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing… — Ronald J. Garan, Jr 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
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. — Henryk Sienkiewicz 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
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
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
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
