When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
An organism without its nature is a being outside the Nature, which, technically, is not realizable in the very near existence of… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Evolution isn't 'survival of the fittest,' for Christ's sake. In the long run, linearly, it's survival of the most prolific.” — Ron Sanders Copy Share Image
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. — Adrian Forsyth Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations… — James A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Only a minority of biologists today hold that the variation of evolution cannot be random. In this point the minority are on… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very… — Christina Koch Copy Share Image
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“It is the life sciences that concluded that organisms are algorithms. If this is not the case – if organisms function in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It’s estimated that AI could free up to 25% of clinician time across different specialties. This increased amount of time could mean… — Ronald M. Razmi Copy Share Image
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
“The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
“Morgan had discovered an important modification to Mendel's laws. Genes did not travel separately; instead, they moved in packs. Packets of information… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war. — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need… — Jacques Diouf Copy Share Image
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
History and Biology, not created the premise that friendships are necessary for a satisfying and healthy life. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life. — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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