#organisms

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

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#almost #ants #insects #know #make

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

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms. ↗

— Asa Gray

#did #found #life #living #manifested

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

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environment #favors #leave #nature #organisms

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#earth #interesting #lots #only #organism

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

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

#consequences #environmental #examined #genetically #hadn