#organism

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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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

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Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

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

— Francois Jacob

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First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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