Cases Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation of a…

— Johannes Kepler

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since…

— Stephen Jay Gould

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way…

— Sylvia Earle

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

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to…

— Ellsworth Huntington

“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism is designed…

— Marilynne Robinson

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

— Noam Chomsky

Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us…

— Carl Woese

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

— Carl Rogers

The cube and the sphere are the sole working tools of creation

— Walter Russell

Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created…

— Charles Lyell

“One basic principle found throughout nature is this: Tension seeks resolution. From the spider web to the human body, from the formation of galaxies…

— Robert Fritz