#organism

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

— Kevin Kelly

#environment #indistinguishable #itself #organism #sense

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

#any #functions #future #organism #organization

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#future #most #organisms #organizations #past

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

#just #looking #organism #organization #out

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

— George G. Simpson

#exemplified #genera #gradual #large #organisms

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#ecosystem #natural-world #organism #life

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#fulfilment #nature #organism #rightness #self-actualization

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

#basic #basic research #cancer #continues #family

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

— Noam Chomsky

#characteristics #does #every #human #human nature

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