God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“We evolve, that means our life’s purpose and perception changes from time to time because we are a part of an infinitely… — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
“Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Yet once biologists concluded that organisms are algorithms, they dismantled the wall between the organic and the inorganic, turned the computer revolution… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“The transpersonal experiences revealing the Earth as an intelligent, conscious entity are corroborated by scientific evidence. Gregory Bateson, who created a brilliant… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“It is the impulse of science to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer… — Leonard Bloomfield Copy Share Image
“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Although all the characteristics of living things are dependent on both genetic and environmental factors, the differences between two individuals in their… — John Alcock Copy Share Image
“These days, there are few researchers,if any,who are really thinking about extracellular genetics.Sooner or later, nobody will be able to talk about… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
“A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I studied what the Germans call the Naturwissenschaften, the natural sciences. Everything from biology to geology. How the clouds are formed, how… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Epigenetics reveals that your body isn’t a genetically predetermined flesh robot, but is regulated by a set of gene switches that can… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“It’s all biology. If it weren’t for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn’t think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the… — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
“In biology, fungus is a kingdom unto itself, a documented land of rot and decay, a place for yeasts and molds and… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be… — Theodor Schwann Copy Share Image
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
“This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology,… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases. Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Humankind's craving to control nature and exploit all its resources for profit can be wiped out in a stroke by an organism… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of… — Andrew H. Knoll Copy Share Image
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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