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Organisms Quotes

A library is a growing organism.

S. R. Ranganathan (1950). “Colon Classification”

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

"Cosmos". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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

Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby (1992). “The Adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture”, Oxford University Press, USA

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller (1970). “Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Being Part Two of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Translated from Nicolin and Pöggeler's Edition (1959), and from the Zusätze in Michelet's Text (1847)”, p.371, Oxford University Press

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”