#organism

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

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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

#almost #ants #insects #know #make

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

#exploring #field #get #into #kinds

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#biological #embedded #organisms #related #us

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms. ↗

— Asa Gray

#did #found #life #living #manifested

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. ↗

— Georg Groddeck

#expression #human #organism #vital

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#body #essentially #human #human body #organism

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#active #adjustment #anywhere #climate #delicate

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment. ↗

— Carl Andre

#around #artist #because #create #environment

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#however #indifferent #organism #stimuli #upon