#organism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #organism




Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.


Joseph Beuys


#consumption #entire #form #gigantic #included

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.


Paul D. Boyer


#basic #basic research #cancer #continues #family

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.


Noam Chomsky


#characteristics #does #every #human #human nature

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.


Edward Hall


#around #bit #bubble #complex #each

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.


Arnold J. Toynbee


#believe #civilization #civilizations #die #i

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

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?


David Suzuki


#always #am #away #been #blown

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.


Kevin Kelly


#design #far #made #organisms #their

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