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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.


David Hilbert


#connection #in my opinion #indivisible #mathematical #opinion

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.


George C. Williams


#capable #circumstances #darwin #empirical #every

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.


Karl Landsteiner


#chemical #constitution #dealing #determined #difficulty

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?


David Suzuki


#always #am #away #been #blown

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.


Hans Selye


#becoming #every #indelible #leaves #little

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.


Gore Vidal


#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

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


#achieve #action #asleep #awake #cells

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.


Simone Weil


#church #considered #degenerate #inevitably #into

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.


E. O. Wilson


#exploring #field #get #into #kinds

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


Walter Gilbert


#biological #embedded #organisms #related #us






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