#organism

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

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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

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

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

— Samuel Butler

#beyond #desire #every #income #innate

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species. ↗

— Richard Owen

#certain #certain extent #condition #constant #extent

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. ↗

— Colin Powell

#action #attains #chief #condition #depend

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism. ↗

— Richard Powers

#create #few #lines #organism #type

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

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Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#back #bacteria #case #crops #first