Organs Quotes

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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't… — Kate Clinton
Our main reproductive organ is our brain. — Molly Kelly
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the… — Hermann Weyl
I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to… — Dave Barry
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without… — Louis Agassiz
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. — Herbert Spencer
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a… — Michael Faraday
Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression… — Henry Corbin
What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such… — Will Durant
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the… — Kenny Smith
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived… — William J. Brennan
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no… — Thomas Jefferson
Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. — Richard Owen
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function. — Richard Owen

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