Living Organism Quotes
43 Living Organism quotes by 40 unique authors
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of…
— Nikola Tesla
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Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex…
— Claude Bernard
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[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we…
— George Wald
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The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given…
— Robert Mayer
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The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure…
— Harold Morowitz
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We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich…
— Paul Brooks
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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the…
— Edward Abbey
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I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and…
— Gabriel Marcel
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Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.
— Liz Greene
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Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies-…
— James Howard Kunstler
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Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation,…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for…
— Dolores LaChapelle
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Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek…
— Carl Jung
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A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who…
— Gautama Buddha
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It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain percentage of our…
— Allan Savory
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Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise…
— Alan Watts
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Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated…
— Hubertus Strughold
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism…
— Carl Andre
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We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking…
— Paul Ormerod
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Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with.…
— John Dos Passos
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