Biology Quote by Carl Rogers

“The defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”

— Paul Kalanithi

The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal…

— Aldo Leopold

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

— Raoul Vaneigem

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

— Thomas Metzinger

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

— Carl Rogers

For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves.…

— Peter Dickens

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function…

— John Steinbeck

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

— John Tooby

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

— Marcus Aurelius

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher