Balls Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

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

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

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

— Kevin Kelly

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

— Carl Rogers

“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms,…

— Hannah Landecker

“An organism is not an inert lump of matter, but a dynamic system: it survives by taking in new matter, extracting energy from it,…

— Eric T. Olson

“Look at any randomly selected piece of your world. Encoded deep in the biology of every cell in every blade of grass, in every…

— Brian Cox

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently…

— Marjory Stephenson

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

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a…

— Anonymous

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

— John Tooby

“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