Organisms Quotes
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.
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.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
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.
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.
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.
Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton.
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
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
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.
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.
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.
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
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.
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
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.
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
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.
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.
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.
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
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.
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.
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?