Autonomy Quotes (2)

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.
Co-author with American biologist Richard Charles Lewontin (1929- )
The Dialectical Biologist (1985), 89.
See also:  |  Evolution (229)  |  Organism (25)

… and the thousands of fishes moved as a huge beast piercing the water. They appear united, inexorably bound by common fate. How comes this unity?
Anonymous
Seventeenth century. In Gary William Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature (2000), 261.
See also:  |  Beast (2)  |  Behaviour (11)  |  Fate (7)  |  Fish (11)  |  Organization (10)  |  Unity (3)

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