Organisms Quotes

177 Organisms quotes by 138 unique authors

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
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -… — David Easton
In todayâ€™s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that… — Francois Jacob
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. — John Tooby
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to… — Al-Jahiz
In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is thatÂ we don't need genetically modified organisms. — Jacques Diouf
Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be… — Bruce H. Lipton
There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by… — Wallace D. Wattles
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems… — Unknown Author
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in… — Thomas Cech
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues;… — Claude Bernard

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