Organisms Quotes
177 Organisms quotes by 138 unique authors
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The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.
— Janine Benyus
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Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.
— Janine Benyus
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If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed…
— Cynthia Kenyon
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Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have…
— James D. Watson
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There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.
— Howard Warren Buffett
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If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled…
— Unknown Author
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Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.
— David Christian
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Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there…
— David Christian
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If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.
— Mark Roth
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We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure…
— Leroy Hood
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Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do…
— Robin Marantz Henig
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Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are…
— S. Jay Olshansky
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in…
— Bonnie Bassler
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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…
— Kevin Kelly
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
— Kevin Kelly
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Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
— Victor Francis Hess
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We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and…
— Lewis Thomas
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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the…
— Marilynne Robinson
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American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web,…
— Unknown Author
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Nature forces everything it can,why? because it forces even you and the people just to grow and make humans and organisms to live.known as gods…
— Lara Flores
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All living organisms serve themselves, of course, but through language, we humans have the capacity to rationalize our self-service.
— AnuPam
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All organisms are a science.
— Jeremy Limn
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Life is all about creating a balance. Moderation is the name of the game. We are what we eat, breathe and think. In a healthy…
— Unknown Author
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N Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe…
— Ernst Mayr
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