Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the… — William James Copy Share Image
Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“What is the meaning of life? For over 10 thousands years and probably longer, people have been asking themselves this question. Whether… — Mark Anthony Monteleone Copy Share Image
“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided… — Maarten Boudry Copy Share Image
“When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made,… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
“Synthetic biology was the transistor of the twenty-first century. Yet political realities in America made it increasingly unfeasible for entrepreneurs there to… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present day occur… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more.… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is the problem that our brains evolved to solve. Resolving uncertainty is a unifying principle across biology, and thus is the… — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
I played fly-half in rugby, so I could influence the game, and midfield in hockey too. So it is part of my… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive -… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point of destructiveness.… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Now, humans have become a dominant force of planetary change and, thus, we may have entered an eon of post-biological evolution in… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ...… — Aristid Lindenmayer Copy Share Image
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
![“When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design on the only proven conscious material then known, namely, our brains. Specifically, the complex structure of our synaptic network. Scientists substituted an…” quote by David Marusek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9cb/david-marusek-27635_ai_when-general-genius-built-the-first-ment_2012723.jpg)
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