Best Quote by Fred Ehrsam

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

— Kevin Kelly

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

— Rita Dove

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard

“The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

— John Tooby

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

— Kevin Kelly

Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.

— Frances Arnold

“The fact that our current planetary evolution is built upon one creature having to physically consume another to survive shows our deep limitation.”

— Richard Rudd

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

— Shirley Jackson

Nothing grows well without space and air.

— Patricia Monaghan

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

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…

— Stephen Jay Gould