#organism

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

— Kevin Kelly

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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

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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

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When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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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

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Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. ↗

— George G. Simpson

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The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

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

— Noam Chomsky

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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material. ↗

— Francis Crick

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