Organisms Quotes

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.

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.

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

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.

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.

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.

After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.

Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

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.

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

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.

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.

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.

​More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates.

We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes.