In Whitehead’s words, “Biology is the study of the larger organisms, whereas physics is the study of the smaller organisms.”53 In the light of modern cosmology, physics is also the study of very large organisms, like planets, solar systems, galaxies and the entire universe. The philosophy of organism points out that everywhere we look in nature, at whatever level or scale, we find wholes that are made up of parts that are themselves wholes at a lower level.
