Superorganism Quotes

#1. Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order - these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle.

Howard Bloom

#2. 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.

Bert Holldobler

#3. An admonishment of sorts, the gentle warning of one who arrived on an earlier ship: You there! Listen! Independence and resilience. This is what the new immigrant needs. Don't get fooled by all this activity. Don't invoke the superorganism. No, no. One functions alone in America. Begin now.

Abraham Verghese

#4. By the time I learned to say "Six-inch number seven on rye with Swiss hold the lettuce," the sound, too, was gone. It became part of what the mind would label silence. You were now subsumed into the superorganism. The

Abraham Verghese

#5. The individual is a cell in the social superorganism. When he feels he is no longer necessary to the larger group, he, too, begins to wither away. As

Howard Bloom

#6. I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

Etgar Keret

#7. January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours ...

Michael Flanders

#8. I care too much for people. I am a bit like Jesus. Only not so heavily bearded.

Louise Rennison

#9. One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me ... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.

Duane G. Carey

#10. Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Charles Clarke

#11. I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

Neal Cassady

#12. There is no place for someone like him in the Society, I think, for someone who can create. He can do so many things of incomparable value, things no one else can do, and the Society doesn't care about that at all.

Ally Condie

#13. Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

Jurgen Habermas

#14. Learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings

Ikechukwu Joseph

#15. Self love, self respect.
Love yourself,love your uniqueness.
You are the only person can be true to yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. You see fewer and fewer chefs who are really big - most stay in shape.

Wolfgang Puck

#17. I'm so trying to give up meat.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#18. Tumbling has always been my favorite.

Aly Raisman

#19. I'm not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But 'Strictly Come Dancing' is my religion.

Miranda Hart

#20. In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.

Elon Musk

#21. I wish I had more time to write.

Jayne Anne Phillips