Organisms Quotes - Page 26

• Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Vegetables, Next

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

  Janine Benyus

  Block, Thinking, Poison

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• If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Use, Way, Aging

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• In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

  Natalie

  Perfection, One Day At A Time, Progress

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