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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. -- Kevin Kelly
Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get. -- Janine Benyus
Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. -- Janine Benyus
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. -- Janine Benyus
deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive. -- Harriet Lerner
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 greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals. -- David Christian
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. -- Walter Gilbert
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. -- Francois Jacob
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. -- James Lovelock
There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet. -- Howard Warren Buffett
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. -- Kevin Kelly
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. -- E. O. Wilson
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the demand of the moment. -- August Krogh
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. -- Ernst Mayr
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms. -- Cynthia Kenyon
Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady. -- Sylvia Earle
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits - bits. -- George Dyson
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan. -- E. O. Wilson
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. -- Karl Landsteiner
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria. -- Andrew H. Knoll
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. -- Albert Claude
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project. -- Joseph Beuys
We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms. -- Nina Fedoroff
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall. -- Nina Fedoroff
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA. -- James D. Watson
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies. -- Lewis Thomas
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. -- Gary Hamel
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. -- James Howard Kunstler
Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity -- Leslie Orgel
Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes. -- Harland Williams
Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death. -- Paul Stamets
There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms. -- Janine Benyus
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. -- Kevin Kelly
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms. -- Roman Vishniac
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. -- John Tooby
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey. -- Denise Levertov
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms. -- John Dewey
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. -- G. Ledyard Stebbins
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. -- Jerry Saltz
Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age. -- Deepak Chopra
The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms. -- Robert Jastrow
Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. -- David Marusek
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. -- George Gaylord Simpson
If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation. -- Mark Roth
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. -- Bill Bryson
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. -- Victor Francis Hess
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth! -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth! -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling. -- Edward T. Hall
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms. -- E. O. Wilson
We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas. -- Danny Hillis
After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me. -- Darynda Jones
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time. -- Steven Pinker
There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person. -- Bryant H. McGill
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero. -- Ilya Prigogine
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants. -- Thomas Nagel
In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms. -- Jacques Diouf
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it. -- Michael Behe
Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton. -- Daniel D. Palmer
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support. -- Marc Bekoff
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. -- William Sims
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
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
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future. -- Janine Benyus
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity. -- Cornel West
Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy. -- John B. S. Haldane
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy. -- John B. S. Haldane
On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity. -- Ernst Mayr
It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe. -- William Huggins
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. -- Ernst Mayr
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. -- John Green
Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms. -- Robert Jastrow
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species. -- Cynthia Kenyon
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: plants and bugs and bacteria." -- William M. Bass
When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. -- Kevin Kelly
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. -- Wilhelm Ostwald
All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes leading to our extinction. -- Robert O. Becker
It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation. -- Francisco J. Ayala
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce. -- Philip Johnson
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it. -- Edward Forbes
In today's vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms. -- Francois Jacob
The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the bloodinto a medium not intended for them may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena. -- Antoine Bechamp
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature. -- Noam Chomsky
Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. -- Stewart Brand
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters. -- David Wolfe
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides. -- Marston Bates
The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions; there's just a lot going on, right? -- Zoe Leonard
A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms. -- Antonio Damasio
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. -- Paul D. Boyer
There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained -- Wallace D. Wattles
There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other. -- Richard Dawkins
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. -- Thomas R. Cech
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable. -- Chris Adami
In our world, these harmful micro-organisms and an endless list of toxic chemicals consistently assault our immune system. Coupled with these assaults are the daily stresses of life and their deleterious effects upon us. -- David Wolfe
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. -- Thomas R. Cech
Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms. -- Bruce H. Lipton
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others. -- Marc Hauser

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