Organism Quotes

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

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

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

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.

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.

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.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

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

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.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.

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

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

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.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

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.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

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.

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.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.