Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms. — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
“It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost… — E. O. Wilson 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
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
Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food… — Satish Kumar 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
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop… — Al-Jahiz 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
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
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative,… — Michael Ghiselin Copy Share Image
Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin 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
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — George Miller Sternberg 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
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
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
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
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness. — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
