#organism

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

— James Lovelock

#environment #favors #leave #nature #organisms

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

#earth #interesting #lots #only #organism

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#changed #closely #conditions #even #exist

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. ↗

— Francois Jacob

#deepest #functions #future #living #living organisms

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#charmed #clue #concept #earth #found

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#another #articulated #clearly #concept #condition

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #functions #future #organism #organization

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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