Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
“The easiest intellectual analogue of pure Quality that people in our environment can understand is that ‘Quality is the response of an… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
It's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very… — Michael Levitt Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“I know some very intelligent philosophers, not at all dogmatic, who believe that “science” cannot introduce the concept of finality in the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A gene," Beadle wrote in 1945, "can be visualized as directing the final configuration of a protein molecule." This was the "action… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Cancer is often associated with death but is also very much about life. It is about the basic principles of biology, the… — Jarle Breivik Copy Share Image
My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very… — Christina Koch Copy Share Image
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and… — William James Copy Share Image
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or… — Michael Moritz Copy Share Image
“Were it not for the melanin in our skin, myoglobin in our muscles and haemoglobin in our blood, we would be the… — Guy Brown Copy Share Image
Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff.… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein… — Oscar Hertwig Copy Share Image
The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
“If organisms indeed lack free will, it implies that we can manipulate and even control their desires using drugs, genetic engineering or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“we were all victims of an obsolete educational system built on the belief that the best way to prepare us for the… — Lucy Mihajlich Copy Share Image
