Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals. — David Christian 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
“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
I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be… — Dan Howell Copy Share Image
“Information is not a static commodity. Organisms pick up information. They adapt it, modify it, and use it.” — José Luis Bermúdez Copy Share Image
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
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
By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“A comprehensively reductive conception is favored by the belief that the propensity for the development of organisms with a subjective view must… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Let's admit that feminism came from liberalism and it was very positive. But then it went dark. It went into a bad… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had… — Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ Copy Share Image