“That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.” Would BeCertainIndividualConditionsConstantSpeciesOrganismsVariability Author:Richard Owen
“To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.” PeopleIndividualFiveOrganismsCrewTanks Author:David Ayer
“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.” HumansMeanFactsIndividualSocialReligiousAnimalMoralCasesPsychologyPressureFundamentalsInstinctEtcInternalsOrganismsHeredity Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.” MomentsLightSeemsIndividualForeverEvolutionWaveComplicatedDelicateFlashOrganismsFringeGleamSparklingBiological EvolutionWave Of Life Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.” KindImportantIndividualSpecialDesignOffersResearchAdvantageExperimentsTreatedCellsRoughOrganismsUnitsAntsColonyAnalogue Author:Bert Holldobler
“The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal. Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.” PersonsPoliticalIndividualSocialCommunityUnitedMembersMassIndependentAcquireImmortalOrganismsPolitical Life Author:Kim Jong Il
“The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.” LongAbleLife IsIndividualProcessExistenceSpeciesTendenciesOrganismsPreservation Author:Boris Sidis