Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later. — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love… — E. O. Wilson 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
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes… — Nina Fedoroff 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
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
It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of… — Andrew H. Knoll Copy Share Image
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 issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
“THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTH A few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE'… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive.… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet. — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. — Bertrand Russell 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
