In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic… — Natalia Rose Copy Share Image
“Whether plain or gorgeous, we've learned to appreciate [secure-type people] for what they really are -- the "supermates" of evolution -- and… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“I know some very intelligent philosophers, not at all dogmatic, who believe that “science” cannot introduce the concept of finality in the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A gene," Beadle wrote in 1945, "can be visualized as directing the final configuration of a protein molecule." This was the "action… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The macromolecules of organic life embody information in an intricate structure. A single hemoglobin molecule comprises four chains of polypeptides, two with… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept… — Hans Adolf Krebs 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
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
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
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
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the… — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman,… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
“You sit in your chair and ignore it, Moldenke. You remain. Evolution continues, Moldenke remains. You remind me of pi, Moldenke --… — David Ohle Copy Share Image
The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image