“The classic example from biology is the huge, towerlike structure that is built by some ant and termite species. These structures only… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“Biology is a force to be reckoned with. An ugly child you love with all your heart and soul, you. But it's… — Herman koch Copy Share Image
I'm taking care of my body, getting my treatment, I'm in the weight room... I'm doing everything I can to stay healthy,… — Shaun Livingston Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got… — Matt Frewer Copy Share Image
You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“Every generation of humans will produce variants and mutants; it is an inextricable part of our biology. A mutation is only “abnormal”… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in the "Lamarckian" mode - by the inheritance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“We were seated in a sparkling new building on the UBC campus with austere modern lines and sleek, minimalist décor—about as sterile… — Kathleen McAuliffe Copy Share Image
“Teachers seeking to 'teach the controversy' over Darwinian evolution in today's climate will likely be met with false warnings that it is… — David K. DeWolf Copy Share Image
“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to.… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many,… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
