Quotes about Organism

The economy is a very sensitive organism. Votes: 1

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. Votes: 1

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. Votes: 1

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. Votes: 1

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. Votes: 1

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. Votes: 1

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. Votes: 1

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. Votes: 1

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. Votes: 1

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. Votes: 1

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. Votes: 1

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. Votes: 1

Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. Votes: 1

There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium. Votes: 1

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. Votes: 1

Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment. Votes: 1

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

A library is a growing organism. Votes: 0

The organism feeds on negative entropy. Votes: 0

...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism. Votes: 0

An organism at war with itself is doomed. Votes: 0

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. Votes: 0

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism. Votes: 0

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. Votes: 0

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. Votes: 0

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. Votes: 0

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs. Votes: 0

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. Votes: 0

Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together. Votes: 0

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. Votes: 0

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony. Votes: 0

Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness. Votes: 0

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism. Votes: 0

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. Votes: 0

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. Votes: 0

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself. Votes: 0

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. Votes: 0

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. Votes: 0

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. Votes: 0

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment Votes: 0

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction. Votes: 0

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. Votes: 0

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. Votes: 0

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. Votes: 0

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. Votes: 0

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. Votes: 0

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself. Votes: 0

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words. Votes: 0

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism Votes: 0

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. Votes: 0

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. Votes: 0

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men. Votes: 0

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. Votes: 0

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Votes: 0

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect. Votes: 0

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. Votes: 0

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. Votes: 0

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism. Votes: 0

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. Votes: 0

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. Votes: 0

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. Votes: 0

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. Votes: 0

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies. Votes: 0

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions. Votes: 0

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. Votes: 0

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level. Votes: 0

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. Votes: 0

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself. Votes: 0

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. Votes: 0

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Votes: 0

The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink. Votes: 0

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening. Votes: 0

You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself. Votes: 0

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities. Votes: 0

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. Votes: 0

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Votes: 0

When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative". Votes: 0

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. Votes: 0

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells. Votes: 0

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. Votes: 0

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. Votes: 0

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. Votes: 0

Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence. Votes: 0

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. Votes: 0

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. Votes: 0

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people. Votes: 0

The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. Votes: 0

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right. Votes: 0

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism. Votes: 0

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. Votes: 0

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. Votes: 0

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism, Votes: 0

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. Votes: 0

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others. Votes: 0

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Votes: 0

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. Votes: 0

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution. Votes: 0

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life. Votes: 0

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences. Votes: 0

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition. Votes: 0

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. Votes: 0

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode. Votes: 0

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution. Votes: 0

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need. Votes: 0

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful... Votes: 0

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution. Votes: 0

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers... Votes: 0

For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism. Votes: 0

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it. Votes: 0

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Votes: 0

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being. Votes: 0

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it. Votes: 0

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me. Votes: 0

For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos. Votes: 0

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction. Votes: 0

Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism. Votes: 0

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm. Votes: 0

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction. Votes: 0

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism. Votes: 0

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations. Votes: 0

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today. Votes: 0

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. Votes: 0

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good. Votes: 0

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives. Votes: 0

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism. Votes: 0

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart. Votes: 0

I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things. Votes: 0

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements. Votes: 0

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. Votes: 0

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life. Votes: 0

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. Votes: 0

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species. Votes: 0

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. Votes: 0

We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who work to save the earth are its antibodies. Votes: 0

I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see if there are ways to do deleted scenes. Votes: 0

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power. Votes: 0

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick. Votes: 0

One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine. Votes: 0

In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness. Votes: 0

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art. Votes: 0

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system. Votes: 0

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction. Votes: 0

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension. Votes: 0

The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment. Votes: 0

If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications. Votes: 0

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism. Votes: 0

When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows. Votes: 0

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism. Votes: 0

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that Votes: 0

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it. Votes: 0

The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence. Votes: 0

A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down Votes: 0

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members. Votes: 0

I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism. Votes: 0

We all shared this experience. We all had one brain, we were one giant organism working and having joy. "What about Walken?" Sorry, bro...Maybe I should've done an hour and 34 minutes. Votes: 0

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function. Votes: 0

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state. Votes: 0

When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile Votes: 0

The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one driven by emotional forces, not only cognitive ones. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained. Votes: 0

The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the sum of them is God, and beyond that is the Absolute. Votes: 0

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation. Votes: 0

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order. Votes: 0

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism. Votes: 0

There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive in vacuums in space and boiling hot water and freezing subzero temperatures. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation. Votes: 0

The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism. Votes: 0

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution. Votes: 0

Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists. Votes: 0

Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART. Votes: 0

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there. Votes: 0