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The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any… — August Krogh
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
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to… — George Wald
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
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
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
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it… — Marcel Proust
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a… — Ayn Rand
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial… — Alfred Richard Orage
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless… — Ronald Reagan
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it… — William S. Burroughs
Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of… — Konrad Lorenz
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and… — Gustav Mahler
That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no… — Richard Owen
In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed… — Swami Vivekananda
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and… — George C. Williams
A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. — Machado de Assis
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with… — Ivan Pavlov
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that… — Johannes Kepler
To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication… — Robert Koch
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few… — Edward T. Hall
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. — Larry Wall
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his… — Ruth Nanda Anshen

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