Organisms Quotes

177 Organisms quotes by 138 unique authors

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs… — Jeremy Jackson
The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer to the product… — Jonathon Porritt
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. — Jeremy Rifkin
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus… — Marston Bates
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of… — Marston Bates
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed… — Stephen Jay Gould
If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp… — Michael Pollan
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain… — Philip Kapleau
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater… — Stephen Jay Gould
We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the… — Paul Stamets
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very… — Michael Behe
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works,… — Carl Sagan
Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity — Leslie Orgel
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and… — George C. Williams
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests,… — Paul Davies
Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that… — Asa Gray
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood… — Zygmunt Bauman

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