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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain… — Francis Crick
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. — Thomas Cech
An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in… — Richard Mabey
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.… — Charles Darwin
Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not… — Theodor Adorno
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen… — Ellsworth Huntington
On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other… — Peter L. Berger
The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man… — Peter L. Berger
For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But… — Peter Dickens
Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are… — R. D. Laing
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension… — Herbert Marcuse
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys… — Robert M. Pirsig
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 have… — Aldo Leopold
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. — Walter Rudolf Hess
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. — Gregory Bateson
I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is… — Wendell Berry
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The… — Gavin de Beer
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete… — Oscar Wilde
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston
To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people. — David Ayer
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When… — C.S. Lewis

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