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The economy is a very sensitive organism. -- Hjalmar Schacht
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. -- Jerome Bruner
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. -- William James
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. -- Martin Heidegger
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. -- Noam Chomsky
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. -- David Hilbert
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. -- Barry Schuler
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. -- Hans Selye
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. -- Thomas Cech
Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. -- Craig Venter
When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at. -- Kevin Kelly
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. -- Gore Vidal
It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material. -- Francis Crick
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. -- Colin Powell
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant. -- Francis Spufford
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. -- Ivan Pavlov
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. -- Jacques Lacan
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium. -- Ivan Pavlov
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. -- Jerry Saltz
Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment. -- Ramez Naam
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. -- George Lucas
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. -- Lewis Thomas
A library is a growing organism. -- S.R. Ranganathan
The organism feeds on negative entropy. -- Erwin Schrodinger
...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism. -- Theo van Doesburg
An organism at war with itself is doomed. -- Carl Sagan
Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. -- Georg Groddeck
Type a few lines of code, you create an organism. -- Richard Powers
The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. -- George Orwell
Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. -- Joseph Brodsky
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. -- Kevin Kelly
Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs. -- W. D. Hamilton
A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. -- Machado de Assis
Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together. -- Candace Pert
The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. -- J. Michael Bishop
No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony. -- John Steinbeck
Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness. -- David Wolfe
help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. -- Charles Simic
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. -- Tennessee Williams
Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself. -- Sebastian Faulks
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. -- Kevin Kelly
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. -- Simone Weil
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. -- C. S. Lewis
Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment -- George Santayana
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction. -- C. V. Wedgwood
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. -- Alvin Toffler
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. -- Shirley Jackson
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. -- Paul Gauguin
Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. -- Ronald Fisher
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself. -- Thomas Metzinger
To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words. -- Emma Goldman
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism -- Carl Rogers
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. -- Nathalie Sarraute
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. -- Alan Watts
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men. -- Steve Kluger
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. -- William S. Burroughs
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. -- Gregory Bateson
Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect. -- Karl Marx
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. -- John Ciardi
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. -- Saul Bellow
Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. -- Ernst Haeckel
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. -- Bertrand Russell
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. -- Antonio Damasio
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. -- Wallace Stegner
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies. -- John Szarkowski
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions. -- Jaime Lerner
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. -- James Lovelock
Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level. -- Bryant McGill
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. -- Ezra Pound
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. -- Will Self
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler
The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink. -- Ilona Andrews
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening. -- David Slade
You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself. -- Bryant McGill
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities. -- Carl Rogers
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. -- Martha Plimpton
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. -- Aldo Leopold
When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative". -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. -- Hattie Morahan
The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells. -- Theodor Schwann
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. -- Walter Rudolf Hess
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. -- Larry Wall
Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence. -- Liz Greene
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. -- Elliott Sober
To operate Ð° tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people. -- David Ayer
The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. -- Barbara Brennan
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right. -- Lyall Watson
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism. -- Maxim Gorky
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. -- George Eliot
The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. -- Jerry Fodor
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism, -- Antony Flew
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. -- Kevin Kelly
Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others. -- Raoul Vaneigem
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. -- Donna J. Haraway
When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism. -- Tara Brach
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms. -- Daniel Nathans
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution. -- Robert Muller
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life. -- Antonio Damasio
The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences. -- Herbert M. Shelton
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition. -- James Black
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. -- Thomas Cech
The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode. -- Jon Hamm
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution. -- Richard Levins
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need. -- Wilhelm Reich
I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful... -- Tom Hornbein
No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution. -- Tom Bethell
I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers... -- Gabriel Marcel
For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism. -- Biz Stone
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it. -- Olivier Theyskens

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