Top 327 Organisms Quotes & Sayings

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere. ... We don't often tend to think about the social sciences (history, economics and politics) as subcategories of ecology. But since people are organisms, it is apparent that we must first understand the principles of ecology if we are to make sense of the events in the human world.

Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences in form. If we could define clearly the differences in molecular constitution and functions of different kinds of organisms, there would be possible a more illuminating and deeper understanding of question of the evolutionary reactions of organisms than could ever be expected from morphological considerations.

Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example, why do almost all the organisms that are alive today on our planet use the same genetic code? If they share a common ancestor, the code could have evolved just once and then been inherited from the most recent common ancestor that present organisms share. On the other hand, if organisms in different species share no common ancestors, the code must have evolved repeatedly.

Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.

Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

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

Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.

Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait has effect E, a natural hypothesis to consider is that T evolved in the lineage leading to those current organisms because T had effect E. This hypothesis is "natural," but it often isn't true!

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.

Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve through changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through changes in their code. And like biological organisms, the most adaptive blockchains will be the ones that survive and thrive.

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.

Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

If few worlds have microbial life, it dramatically reduces the chances that more complex organisms exist.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that constitute living organisms on a planet, and the nuclei of these same elements interact to generate the light of its star. Then the organisms on the planet come to depend wholly on that starlight, as they must if life is to persist. So it is that all life on the Earth runs on sunlight. [Referring to photosynthesis]

No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means they find their way into the blood. The propensity exhibited by the leukocytes for picking up inorganic granules is well known, and that they may be able not only to pick up but to assimilate, and so dispose of, the bacteria which come in their way does not seem to me very improbable in view of the fact that amoebae, which resemble them so closely, feed upon bacteria and similar organisms.

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms.

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

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

What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

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

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that at least some of that variation is inherited - and the syllogistic inference is natural selection.

Families are complex organisms.

The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms that sustain us today, not only will we destroy those organisms, but we will destroy ourselves.

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

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

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These considerations naturally divide the physics of the earth into three essential parts, the first being a theory of the atmosphere, or Meteorology, the second, a theory of the earth's external crust, or Hydrogeology, and the third, a theory of living organisms, or Biology.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But at the same time environments (nature and other people) are active in the making of organisms. In many respects each one of these elements, organism and environment, form part of one another.

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.

There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.