Organisms Quotes

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

  Francois Jacob

  Looks, Produce, Function

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• In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Healthy, States, Tendencies

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• Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

  Kevin Kelly

  Design, Made

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• For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Lying, Cosmos

  "Man's Being, His Destiny, and World-Evolution".

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• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Flower, Self

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, Play, Ideas

  Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

  James Balog

  Divorce, Civilization, Depends

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• 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.

  Edward T. Hall

  Simple, Space, Sacred

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• We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms that sustain us today, not only will we destroy those organisms, but we will destroy ourselves.

  Paul Stamets

  Understanding, Together, Needs

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• Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

  Leslie Orgel

  Complexity, Distinguished, Living Organisms

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• All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Order, Energy, Needs

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• The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There are much more intimate relations between the earth and the living organisms which populated it, and it may even be demonstrated that the earth was developed because of them.

  Louis Agassiz

  Science, Past, Earth

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

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Lying, Discovery

  "Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

  Albert Claude

  Men, Cells, May

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• Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Reactions, Limitation

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• You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Strong, Stress, Exercise

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• 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

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

  Alfred Russel Wallace (2004). “Writings on evolution, 1843-1912”, Thoemmes Pr

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

  Jerry Fodor

  Data, May, Bears

  "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Philosophy, Essence

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Kevin Kelly

  Past, Organization, Literature

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• 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

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

  Kevin Kelly

  Environment

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

  Walter Gilbert

  World, Embedded, Related

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