“The supernatural presides over man's formation always. . . Life is that evidence of supernatural endowment which originally entered nature during the… — Pauline Hopkins Copy Share Image
I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
“Through our failure to acknowledge our oneness with the total of other population s of biological organisms...we reveal the egocentricity which has… — John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment Copy Share Image
[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
The story of Noah is self-contradictory, uncorroborated by independent historical evidence, and is generally at odds with everything we know about our… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“biology is usually called upon to justify a society based on selfish principles, but we should never forget that it has also… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my… — George Emil Palade Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
“Our self-awareness impresses itself on us so cogently, as individuals and as a species, that we cannot imagine ourselves out of existence,… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
Science is the key to our future, and if you dont believe in science, then youre holding everybody back. And its fine… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information… — Saul Gorn Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved… The precise… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“At the same time, Bezos became enamored with a book called Creation, by Steve Grand, the developer of a 1990s video game… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The tightness of genetic linkage, in short, was a surrogate for the physical proximity of genes on chromosomes: by measuring how often… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“(I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game… — David Buss Copy Share Image
“You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of ontogenesis.1 In other words, the development of the stem, or race, is, in accordance with the… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
“There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
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