“The chemistry of living organisms is organized around carbon, which accounts for more than half the dry weight of cells.”

Principles of Biochemistry, Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Biochemistry

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Albert L. Lehninger19

American biochemist 1917–1986

Christian Homburg (1962) German academic

Source: "A configurational perspective on key account management", 2002, p. 46

“The dead are way more organized than the living.”

China Miéville book Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun

“Labor is a social process. Each enterprise is part of the productive body of society. The total social production is formed by their connection and collaboration. Like the cells that constitute a living organism, they cannot exist isolated and cut off from the body. So the organization of the work inside the shop is only one-half of the task of the workers. Over it, a still more important task, stands the joining of the separate enterprises, their combination into a social organization.”

Antonie Pannekoek (1873–1960) Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist

Section 1.1
Workers Councils (1947)

“The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.”

Hannah Arendt book The Life of the Mind

Source: The Life of the Mind (1971/1978), pp. 31-32.

“It is the residue of animal and vegetable putrefaction, and is a black body; when dry it is pulverulent, and when wet has a soft, greasy feel… It is the produce of organic power—a compound of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, such as cannot be chemically composed.”

Albrecht Thaer (1752–1828) German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory for plant nutrition

p. 336 http://books.google.com/books?id=zAhJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA336; Cited in: Edmund Ruffin An Essay on Calcareous Manures, Volume 1. J.W. Randolph, 1852. p. 85. <br class="br">Ruffin summarizes:<br>"Humus" is the term used by this author for the decomposed vegetable and other organic matter which is more or less mixed with all surface soil, and which gives to soil all its fertility, and furnishes all the food of plants. <br class="br">The Principles of Agriculture, 1844, Section III: Agronomy

“The theme of this book, and the underlying premise of the external perspective on organizations, is that organizational activities and outcomes are accounted for by the context in which the organization is embedded.”

Jeffrey Pfeffer (1946) American academic

2003; 39
The External Control of Organizations, 1978

Gerald R. Salancik (1943–1996) American organizational theorist

2003; 39
The External Control of Organizations, 1978

“Mechanism… provides us with no grasp of the specific characteristics of organisms, of the organization of organic processes among one another, of organic 'wholeness', of the problem of the origin of organic 'teleology', or of the historical character of organisms… We must therefore try to establish a new standpoint which — as opposed to mechanism — takes account of organic wholeness, but… treats it in a manner which admits of scientific investigation.”

Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) austrian biologist and philosopher

Source: 1930s, Modern Theory of Development, 1933, 1962, p. 46