“My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.” WayBodyCertainCommunityPrinciplesEconomicMaterialsScientistProductionsTitlesFeaturesOrganizedGoods Author:Michael Polanyi
“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.” WorldIdeasWholeMomentsProblemBodyInspirationScienceCommunityStruggleSpringLonelyAccountsInspiredWhole WorldOrganizedResearchers Author:Max Planck
“I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.” BodyPoliticalPoliticsDemocratOrganized Author:Will Rogers
“Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.” DoeBodySocialGroupsEqualMembersPermanentOrganizedFlatsSocial Groups Book:Social Mobility Source: Social Mobility
“We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.” MatterWholeFactsBodyHappensObjectsMaterialsShadowAreasStructureCastsCeaseOrganizedAffectedPhenomenonCyclingSustainingHyperDegradingEntropyMetabolism Author:Terence McKenna
“The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous when one church official told me after the debate when a big crowd of people surrounded me that he had assigned me a body guard "just in case." Just in case what? I thought Christians were suppose to be exceptionally tolerant. Well, in any case, I guess I was grateful for the gesture, "just in case."” PeopleWellsLittlesBodyBigsChristianChurchCasesAtheismGratefulCrowdsDebateNervousEveningOfficialsOrganizedGesturesPolite Author:Michael Shermer
“If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.” IfsDifferentWholeBodyIndividualNationsEconomicSourceResourcesRelationPropertyInternationalEnvyTreatedOrganizedTradingExclusiveFriction Author:Friedrich August von Hayek