Organisms Quotes

177 Organisms quotes by 138 unique authors

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the… — Douglas J. Futuyma
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time. — Steven Pinker
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with… — Allan Sandage
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence… — Adam Nicolson
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes. — Harland Williams
The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support. — Marc Bekoff
Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what… — Unknown Author
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony… — Paul D. Boyer
But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any… — Joseph Lister
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms. — Daniel Nathans
The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the bloodinto a medium not intended for them may provoke redoubtable… — Antoine Bechamp
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that… — Donna J. Haraway
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. — William Sims
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and… — Karl Landsteiner
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man.… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants. — Thomas Nagel
We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment,… — Eugene Odum
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it. — Michael Behe
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for… — E. O. Wilson
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence… — Ernst Mayr
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments… — Peter Cheeke

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