Organism Quotes

268 quotes by 221 authors

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as… — Annie Besant
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's… — Nick Cave
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky
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
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
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace… — Oliver Sacks
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside… — Jean Cocteau
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
[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
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time… — Ronald Fisher
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this… — George Wald
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
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
The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task… — Aristid Lindenmayer
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical… — Herbert Spencer Jennings
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such… — Oscar Hertwig
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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