Biology Quote by Clifford Grobstein

“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand…

— Stuart Kauffman

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

— Octavia E. Butler

Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of…

— Arthur Koestler

I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how…

— James Rothman

In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups…

— Bonnie Bassler

“I described living cells as being crammed full of protein molecules. Acting individually or in small assemblies, they perform reiterated molecular processes that can…

— Dennis Bray

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small…

— Robert Frenay

In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of…

— Michael Denton

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

— Victor J. Stenger

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and…

— Murray Bookchin

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

— Peter Drucker

“It is conceivable that an interplay of genes and epigenes coordinates human embryogenesis. Let us return, yet again, to Morgan's problem: the creation of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee