Organisms Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Joy, Mind

  17 Copy quote

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

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Morbid, Reactions, Equilibrium

  Nathalie Sarraute (1990). “The age of suspicion: essays on the novel”, George Braziller

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Brain, Body, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Hans Selye

  Stress, Survival, Getting Older

  101 Copy quote

• 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

  Ocean, Moving, Lakes

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Party, Dna, Sea

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Dies

  18 Copy quote

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

  James Lovelock

  Shapes, Favors, Environment

  24 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jacques Lacan

  Lines, May, Dimensions

  8 Copy quote

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

  Kevin Kelly

  Past, Organization, Literature

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Art, Quality, Principles

  47 Copy quote

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

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

  Nick Cave

  Breathing, Challenges, Musical

  4 Copy quote

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Doe, Human Nature, Characteristics

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media", www.imdb.com. 1992.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

  Sylvia Earle

  Yield, Oxygen, Sea

  7 Copy quote

• We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

  Walter Gilbert

  World, Embedded, Related

  7 Copy quote

• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Writing, Garden

  9 Copy quote

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical, Animal, Body

  "Letter on Humanism". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1947.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  William James

  Sick, Failing, Ifs

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  Mars, Earth, Clue

  13 Copy quote

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

  Kevin Kelly

  Environment, Broads

  7 Copy quote

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

  Kevin Kelly

  Environment

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Organization, Function, Persist

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Simone Weil

  Church, Degenerates, Belief

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.284, Routledge

  7 Copy quote

  Show source