“You are thinking.'' he said. ''that my face is old and tired. You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I’m asking you to give me a chance, however slim, to prove myself.” My throat tightened. “Cade…I’m not a science experiment.” “Good… — Beth Mikell Copy Share Image
[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
“human beings were a part of the complex system of interactions among living organisms that made up an ecosystem, rather than apart… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“This book asserts that we need to change ourselves before we can change our surroundings, and that we have now reached a… — Grégoire de Kalbermatten Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment. In some cases, the appropriate medical intervention to mitigate… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“EVOLUTION RESTS ON three steps: (a) certain biological traits are inherited by genetic means; (b) mutations and gene recombination produce variation in… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
It's also important that I, or [Producer] Karen Pritzker, also say that this film [ "Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the… — James Redford Copy Share Image
“evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I… — Bruce Beutler Copy Share Image
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and… — James Black Copy Share Image
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their… — Hannah Landecker Copy Share Image
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital… — Sybil Leek Copy Share Image
“What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital...the machine code of the genes… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image