#organism

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#day #day to day #death #grateful #here

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. ↗

— Hans Selye

#becoming #every #indelible #leaves #little

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#cosmic #cosmic rays #effects #great #interest

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

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

#achieve #action #asleep #awake #cells

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. ↗

— George Wald

#alive #appear #back #billion #creature

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

— Simone Weil

#church #considered #degenerate #inevitably #into

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