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Organism Quotes by Kevin Kelly
- In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
- Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
- One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
- It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem…
- When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism…
- But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the…
- An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able…
More Organism Quotes
- The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its… — Annie Besant
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- 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,… — 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… — 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… — Oliver Sacks
- If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau
- Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of… — Claude Bernard
- [A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger
- We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism… — Ronald Fisher