The mind is not immediately cognizant of the sound of the sea or of its several waves; nor of the trees of the forest and their several leaves. All that it knows intuitively is an affection of the organism as affected by the sound or sight. The impression made by the distant object is on the organism, and when the impression is sufficiently strong on the organism, the mind is called into exercise, and from the organic affections or the external and distant cause. Thus there is no proof of a mental operation of which we are unconscious.英文原著 · 《The Scottish Philosophy》
All parts of the organism are tuned to one another, that is, THEY ARE ADAPTED TO ONE ANOTHER, and in the same way THE ORGANISM AS A WHOLE IS ADAPTED TO THE CONDITIONS OF ITS LIFE, AND IT IS SO AT EVERY STAGE OF ITS EVOLUTION.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
A wretched habit of the heart! One thing has always struck me as strange. I have never made myself the slave of the woman I have loved. On the contrary, I have always acquired an invincible power over her will and heart, without in the least endeavouring to do so. Why is this? Is it because I never esteem any- thing highly, and she has been continually afraid to let me out of her hands? Or is it the magnetic influence of a powerful organism? Or is it, simply, that I have never succeeded in meeting a woman of stubborn character?英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Society, like an individual organism, must creep before it can walk, and perhaps the Babylonian experiments in astrology and magic, which European civilization was destined to copy for some three or four thousand years, must have been made a part of the necessary evolution of our race in one place or in another. That thought, however, need not blind us to the essential fact, which the historian of science must needs admit, that for the Babylonian, despite his boasted culture, science spelled superstition.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-1》
"Just as the animal cells, by mutual co-operation, express their latent powers in formation of the complete organism, so does the individual, by co-operative effort with other individuals, attain his highest form of development.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,--the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
There are cells within me and you and other complex organisms that will actually sacrifice themselves for the whole.美剧 · 《Billions》
Mine is to make this universe traversable and to leave this company a living organism that can thrive long after I've gone off on Manticore-IX.美剧 · 《Billions》
One would be to take a lot of different strains of this organism -- One would be to take a lot of different strains of this organism --演讲 · 《Can we domesticate germs ~ Paul Ewald》