Organisms Quotes - Page 2

• Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Process, Aim, Vigorous

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.

  George Lucas

  Law, Choices, Forever

  "Fenómeno cinematográfico". Entrevista de la Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. 19 de junio de 1999.

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• It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

  Kevin Kelly

  Literature, Lessons, Evolution

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• 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

  Organization, Environmental, Turbulence

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• The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Diversity, Mind

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• En los ecosistemas naturales que funcionan no hay residuos. Todos los organismos, vivos o muertos, son fuentes potenciales de alimento para otros organismos. Una oruga se come una hoja; un petirrojo se come a la oruga; un halcón se come al petirrojo. Cuando la planta, la oruga, el petirrojo y el halcón mueren, son consumidos a su vez por los descomponedores.

  G. Tyler Miller

  Ciencia, Ecosistemas, Petirrojos

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• But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

  Kevin Kelly

  Trying, Matter, Path

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• An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

  Kevin Kelly

  Organization, Literature, Able

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• The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

  George Leonard

  Numbers, Humanity, Different

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.23, Gibbs Smith

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• La muy discutida teoría moral del arte de Ruskin formaba parte de un intento por demostrar que esta actividad humana, que tanto valoramos, comprometía a toda la personalidad humana. Su insistencia en la santidad de la naturaleza formaba parte de un intento de desarrollar la intuición de Goethe de que la forma no se puede armar en la mente mediante un proceso aditivo, sino que debe deducirse de las leyes de crecimiento de los organismos vivos y de su resistencia a los elementos.

  Kenneth Clark

  Arte, Derecho, Personalidad

  John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). "Selected writings", Penguin Group USA

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• A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here.

  Robert Reed

  Loss, Thinking, Intelligent

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• The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

  David Bohm

  Civilization, Unbroken, Way

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• Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

  Samuel Butler

  Airplane, Men, Flying

  Samuel Butler (1951). "Cuadernos"

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• Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.

  George Lucas

  Brain, Use, Enough

  "Fenómeno cinematográfico". Entrevista de la Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. 19 de junio de 1999.

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, People, Age

  Fuente: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• Tienes que tomar una decisión muy importante y temprana en tu vida: ¿vas a estar solo o vas a estar con otra persona? ¿Vas a estar cuerdo, o no vas a estar solo? Una pareja es algo extraño; es un organismo que es la mitad de inteligente que el miembro más inteligente. ¡Y los dos sabéis quién es!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Lonely, Couple

  "Dylan Moran: Lo que es". Vídeo, 2009.

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• If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste. The waste of one organism becomes food for another and everything's recycled in an ecological system whereas in our human built environment there's a throughput system. We use something then we throw it away... We have to imitate nature and try to re-use everything we make as human beings or recycle them - when we cannot re-use or recycle them we should try to reintegrate them back into the natural environment.

  Ken Yeang

  Trying, Looks, Use

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• "Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Media, Pensamiento, Años

  Fuente: blogs.ssrc.org

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• El entorno vivo es la biosfera, la fina capa que rodea el mundo de organismos vivos. Nosotros formamos parte de ella. Nuestra existencia depende de ella de formas que la gente ni siquiera ha empezado a apreciar. Nuestra existencia depende no sólo de su existencia, sino de su estabilidad y su riqueza.

  E. O. Wilson

  Gente, Apreciar, Mundo

  Fuente: blog.cleveland.com

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• We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.

  E. O. Wilson

  Taken, Levels, Soil

  Fuente: blog.cleveland.com

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• Cuando vas en coche al supermercado, tu intención no es cambiar el mundo, simplemente resulta que tiene ese impacto. Así que hemos hecho muchas cosas sin darnos cuenta, y sí, el mero hecho de ser inusual, como dices, no te sitúa por encima, en cierto sentido, de ninguno de los demás organismos con los que compartimos este planeta.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Impacto, Doe, Hecho

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• La homeopatía no buscaba simplemente curar una enfermedad, sino que la trataba como un signo de desorden de todo el organismo humano. Esto también se reconocía en el Upanishad, que hablaba de los órganos humanos como una combinación de cuerpo, mente y espíritu. La homeopatía desempeñaría un papel importante en la salud pública del país junto con otros sistemas. Las instalaciones médicas en la India son tan escasas que la Homeopatía puede visualizar con confianza un vasto campo de expansión.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  País, Mente, Importante

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• I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits - plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

  Jack London

  Memories, Believe, Soul

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• El bien, dicen los místicos del espíritu, es Dios, un ser cuya única definición es que está más allá del poder del hombre para concebirlo - una definición que invalida la conciencia del hombre y anula sus conceptos de existencia. El bien, dicen los místicos del músculo, es la Sociedad - una cosa que definen como un organismo que no posee forma física, un super-ser encarnado en nadie en particular y en todos en general excepto en ti mismo.... El propósito de la vida del hombre, dicen ambos, es convertirse en un abyecto zombi que sirve a un propósito que desconoce, por razones que no debe cuestionar.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Zombie, Doe

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Needs, States

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1127, Wordsworth Editions

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