Organisms Quotes

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

  Francois Jacob

  Looks, Produce, Function

  24 Copy quote

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

  Sophie Swetchine

  Healthy, States, Tendencies

  5 Copy quote

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

  Kevin Kelly

  Design, Made

  7 Copy quote

• 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".

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  James Balog

  Divorce, Civilization, Depends

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  79 Copy quote

• 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

  63 Copy quote

• Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

  Leslie Orgel

  Complexity, Distinguished, Living Organisms

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  16 Copy quote

• 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.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Reactions, Limitation

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Philosophy, Essence

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead, and the universe is not an organism, but a building, with gods at rest in it in luxury: not as personifications of the energies in their manners of operation, but as luxury tenants, requiring service. And Man, accordingly, is not as a child born to flower in the knowledge of his own eternal portion but as a robot fashioned to serve.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Flower, Men

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tom Hornbein

  Climbing, Views, Drug

  6 Copy quote

• Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the foreseeable future. More people have been killed by crusaders than by statesmen.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Confused, Maps, Territory

  24 Copy quote

• Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

  Richard Powers

  Lines, Type, Code

  4 Copy quote

• 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”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source