If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of… — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
“When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
“Thus by an unprejudiced observation of the animal kingdom, we reach the conclusion that wherever society exists at all, this principle may… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans.… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
My whole interest is, how do you use evolution as an innovation engine? How does evolution solve new problems that life faces?… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Who can live the same moment twice? In comparison with an organism, inorganic matter appears to be constant and changeless; but, in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I teach biology, it's kind of a difficult science and time is limited. As far as I'm concerned, it's all about the… — Danny Lloyd Copy Share Image
“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don't have enough coming into physics and engineering. It's… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Society has already become a most artificial system of complicated relations, a gigantic organism, wherein all members are closely connected. All this… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An… — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
“What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
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