56 Organisms Quotes for You to Enjoy

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. James Howard Kunstler

Life Nature Character Change Quality Will Building Living Ought Settlements Our Ruining Destroying Must Civic Scatter Over Like Countryside Towns Building Blocks Go Blocks Human Where Decide Organisms Farmland Grow Growth Living Organisms

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms. Janine Benyus

Ideas Literally Organisms Many

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

Work Single Energy Every Bit Because Sip Get Organisms Barter

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project. Joseph Beuys

Work Art Quality Project System Gigantic Entire Something Consumption Takes Talk Principle Form Process Which Social Organisms Production Included

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

Constitution Long Living Difficulty Way Characteristics High Determined Having Weight Long Way Principal Proteins Chemical Dealing Still Owing Substances Regarded Which Organisms Molecular Living Organisms

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

Made Design Too Far Organisms Adapt

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

Future Time Past Way Signals Taking Most Anticipate Organisms Organizations

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

Our About Self-Awareness Concerned How Very Organisms Bolster Biological Humans

The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part. Neri Oxman

Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall. Nina Fedoroff

While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events. Peter A. Levine

Events Stress Nervous System Threatening Nervous System Studying Most Began Effects Accumulate Suspect While Capacity Organisms Rebound Innate Stressful

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. Phillip E. Johnson

First Birds Broader Complex Evolutionary Variation Merely Like First Place Content Within Answer How Limits Occurs Came However Existence Human Human Beings Place Explain Much Organisms Aspire Beings Biologists Flowers

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material of certain viruses, but it is also found in all living cells, where it plays an important role in certain processes such as the making of proteins. Richard J. Roberts

Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders. Richard Preston

Change Problem Become Entangled Some Habitats Could Allow Global Making Climate Climate Change Spread Go Traditional Causing Native While Room Warmer Organisms Farther Species Extinct

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions. Robin Marantz Henig

Life Natural People Events Hardships Own Other Tools Minds Favored Recognize Evolution Ability Come Narratives Causal Up Infer Human Intentions Them Might Certain Organisms Human Life Beliefs Among Presence Cognitive Early Desires Harm

Since the beginning of civilization humans have altered our environment and its biology to allow our civilization to thrive - from domesticating plants and animals to building shelter and tools from living organisms. Ryan Bethencourt

Plants Thrive Animals Building Beginning Living Biology Tools Our Civilization Allow Environment Since Altered Shelter Organisms Plants And Animals Living Organisms Humans

Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. S. Jay Olshansky

You World Protection Rare Long Animals Live Enough Our Once See Only Protected Very Laboratory Ageing Create Organisms Pets Humans Basically External Zoo External World

Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells. Sam Kean

Most Junk Cells Organisms Less Loads

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.' Sean M. Carroll

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

Will Big Eat Part Green Big Part Organisms Tech Waste

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady. Sylvia Earle

Chemistry Atmosphere Steady Vast Shape Take Most Up Yield Oxygen Store Hold Planet Planetary Organisms Sea Carbon Carbon Dioxide Amount

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

Good You Strange Better Insect Some About Gene Obscure Had Study Heard Want Justification Organisation Organisms Ever

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