Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. Kevin Kelly American Editor More Kevin Kelly Quotes 5
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. Kevin Kelly American Editor More Kevin Kelly Quotes 0
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 Austrian Scientist More Karl Landsteiner Quotes 0
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 American Scientist More Daniel Nathans Quotes 0
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 German Scientist More Wilhelm Ostwald Quotes 0
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 American Scientist More Thomas R. Cech Quotes 0
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 Belgian Scientist More Albert Claude Quotes 0
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. Paul D. Boyer American Scientist More Paul D. Boyer Quotes 0
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. Victor Francis Hess American Physicist More Victor Francis Hess Quotes 0
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. James Lovelock English Scientist More James Lovelock Quotes 0
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. Ernst Mayr German Scientist More Ernst Mayr Quotes 0
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 American Economist More Jeremy Rifkin Quotes 0
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. George C. Williams American Scientist More George C. Williams Quotes 0
This high degree of organization of prokaryotic [organisms that lack nuclei] genomes is a complete surprise, and this finding carried many implications that biologists might not have considered before. These findings show that evolution of prokaryotes is constrained not just by variations in the content of genes, but also by the intricate ways in which those genes are arranged on chromosomes. Bernhard Palsson More Bernhard Palsson Quotes 0
All of these organisms exhibit this property of latency. They can remain dormant until immune defenses are lowered. It's a significant medical problem in endemic regions. Bruce Klein More Bruce Klein Quotes 0
You would find a few organisms that just grew like crazy. We call them 'weeds' because they take advantage of the luxurious conditions found in the lab but they might not be the ones who are important out in the real world, where it isn't so luxurious. Bruce Rittmann More Bruce Rittmann Quotes 0
[Finding living organisms, however, is a remote possibility.] It is not out of the question, but it is certainly not the first place I would look, ... It's really very cold. Candice Hansen More Candice Hansen Quotes 0
The most advanced organisms at the time were bacteria, so there isn't a big extinction event you can identify as cut-and-dry as the extinction of the dinosaurs. Donald Lowe More Donald Lowe Quotes 0
I have strong moral objections to creating human organisms in order to harvest cells from them in a way that destroys them. But those objections simply would not apply to proposals that would not in fact involve human organisms. Edward Whelan More Edward Whelan Quotes 0
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it. Edward Forbes More Edward Forbes Quotes 0
These single-celled organisms are extremely sensitive to environmental changes. Gerta Keller More Gerta Keller Quotes 0
The deep ocean floor is a new world, and it contains microbes and minerals and plant organisms that are quite extraordinary. Micro-organisms in particular can be used to provide new pharmaceutical treatments for a variety of human ailments. Ian McLachlan More Ian McLachlan Quotes 0
Amphibians are one of the latest groups of organisms to show us changes are afoot on the landscape. They're susceptible to a lot of things that would be good for us to pay attention to. If you're losing them, you start to look at why. Is the landscape changing, and for what reasons? And are those reasons going to affect us, too? Jae Abel More Jae Abel Quotes 0
Once people realized they could tag and they could follow organisms it just became a standard method. And once anything becomes standard, people sort of forget that it is an invasive treatment and it might have implications on the animals being tagged. James Cahill More James Cahill Quotes 0
More drugs come from soil organisms than from any other habitat on Earth. Soil will be the richest environment but, technically, it is also the hardest. If we can do this with soil, we think we can do it with material from any environment. Jo Handelsman More Jo Handelsman Quotes 0