“Fortunately, most of our vital physiological functions are involuntary, as some amongst us would forget them.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Getting married and having children is an evolution process, a live social experiment no one is documenting. — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
“your biography—that is, the experiences that make up your life—becomes your biology.” — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“For nine months I grew a human being inside my belly and then I pushed it out my vagina and now I'm… — Heather B. Armstrong Copy Share Image
In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes. — Jeffrey C. Hall Copy Share Image
I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are! — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
“Bejan’s theory has three tenets: Life is flow: All flow systems are live systems, the animate and the inanimate. Design generation and… — Nick Gogerty Copy Share Image
One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker Copy Share Image
Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Naive Darwinists, including many capitalists, have self-servingly argued that oppression of the weak and the poor is a justified application of natural… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“I recommend Richard Dawkins’s and E. O. Wilson’s books on evolution. If I had to pick just one, it would be Dawkins’s… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“ Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change. In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost,… — Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier Copy Share Image
I'm interested in using evolution to move forward into the future, to get biology to do a lot of new chemistry for… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
“Have faith that the results that you are looking for will come from the fruition of your research.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
“we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“By means of the notion of “cultural evolution,” the democratic anthropologist tries to avoid questions of biology.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you had megaphones on your chest they'd listen to the words that came out of your lips” — Amby C. Ezem Copy Share Image
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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