#organism

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#better #ever #gene #good #had

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

#certain #circumstances #cripple #decline #earlier

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

#changed #closely #conditions #even #exist

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

#audience #experience #i #i am #living

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

— Richard Powers

#create #few #lines #organism #type

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

#amount #certain #complex #darwinian #darwinian theory

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

#brain #dwells #kind #may #organism

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

#health #his #human #indeed #just

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#animal #another #both #clear #complex