#organism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #organism




The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.


Wilhelm Ostwald


#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

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

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

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

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