Aim Quote by John Steinbeck

“Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment.”

— Reginald H. Garrett

“Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded…

— Richard J. Borden

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

— John Tooby

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

“If lack of self-regulation is the essential characteristic of organisms that are destructive, it is the presence of self-regulatory capacity that is critical to…

— Edwin H Friedman

“It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of…

— Ray Kurzweil

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

— Christopher Ryan

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

— John Dewey

“A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies…

— Richard Adams

“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.”

— Thomas Ligotti

“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living:…

— Bill Bass

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

— Ursula K. Le Guin