Organisms Quotes - Page 13

• The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Gmos, Environmental, Introducing

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• The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Self, Numbers

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• 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.

  S. R. Ranganathan

  Book, Law, Library

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

  George Eliot

  World, Demand, Fine

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2858, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  August Krogh

  Science, Oxygen, Regulation

  August Krogh (1977). “Respiratory adaptations, capillary exchange, and reflex mechanisms: proceedings of the August Krogh Centenary Symposium held in Srinagar, Kashmir (India), October 11-15, 1974”

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• A library is a growing organism.

  S. R. Ranganathan

  Library, Growing

  S. R. Ranganathan (1950). “Colon Classification”

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• Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

  Marston Bates

  Science, Animal, Nomenclature

  Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits - plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

  Jack London

  Memories, Believe, Soul

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• Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

  John Fowles

  Real, Character, Independent

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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

  Emma Goldman

  States, Tendencies, Shows

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• 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.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Growing Up, Self, Challenges

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• We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which not only assures the preservation of its nationality, but by the development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the highest freedom.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Development, States

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Should Have, Law

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• To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

  Barbara Hurd

  Blessing, Ideas, Luxury

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  R.A. Dickey

  Thinking, Games, Today

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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

  Karl Marx

  Exercise, Effort, Growth

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• ... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done....to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism.

  Robert Koch

  Animal, Growth, Important

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• 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.

  John Dos Passos

  Apathy, Complicated, Intense

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• 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.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Needs, States

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1127, Wordsworth Editions

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• The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society — a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Zombie, Doe

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Process, Aim, Vigorous

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Perspective, Inability, Observation

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

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• It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Majority, Mutation, Generations

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• The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Diversity, Mind

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• Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Art, Inspiration

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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