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
“you don’t need to understand any of the biology, just as you don’t need to understand radiation to use a microwave oven.” — Timothy Ferriss 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
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
“evolution is just a fancy faceless god invented for people who don't believe in magic.” — Clayton Baker Copy Share Image
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the… — Charles Darwin 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
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — J.B.S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution… — Nick Webb Copy Share Image
“Now it happens that I am a fluid sort of an organism, with sufficient kinship with life to fit myself in 'most… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".” — Stephen Hawkings Copy Share Image
As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of… — Arnaz Battle Copy Share Image
Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes. — Nasser El Sonbaty Copy Share Image
To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics. — Moby Copy Share Image
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else. — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
