To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later. — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.” — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth… — Richard Mabey 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 has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact.… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation -… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead,… — Joseph Campbell 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
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation. — Mark Roth Copy Share Image
