Organism Quotes

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

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

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.

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.

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.

The economy is a very sensitive 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.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

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.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

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.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.