Organisms Quotes

177 Organisms quotes by 138 unique authors

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
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in… — Albert Claude
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 difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice… — William E. Gladstone
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
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of… — Susan Sontag
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
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and… — Nina Fedoroff
We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult… — Nina Fedoroff
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. — Francois Jacob
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms… — Phillip E. Johnson
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future… — Dalai Lama
I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling. — Edward T. Hall
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have… — Daniel Dennett
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of… — Edward Forbes
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is… — Rachel Carson
You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions of… — Joe Rogan
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature.… — James Balog
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the… — Paul Davies
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. — Walter Gilbert
Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry,… — Sylvia Earle
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing… — Gary Hamel
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. — Kevin Kelly
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. — Kevin Kelly

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