#organism

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

— Martin Heidegger

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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

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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

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

— Jerome Bruner

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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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 R. Cech

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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

#better #ever #gene #good #had

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. ↗

— James Lovelock

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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

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The economy is a very sensitive organism. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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