My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“our own. It is critical not to feel obliged to inherit something that doesn’t belong to us. Or to misread the bond… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
“You may not agree with the idea that organisms are algorithms, and that giraffes, tomatoes and human beings are just different methods… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on… — Benjamin Van Roy Copy Share Image
If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This… — John Horgan Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
“There are many subtle variants of theistic evolution, but a typical version rests upon the following premises: The universe came into being… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“The longing for the fusion with another organism in the genital embrace is just as strong in the armored organism as it… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I… — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found… — Francis Collins 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 great evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane (1892-1964), on being asked by a cleric what biology could say about the Creator,… — David Beerling Copy Share Image
Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“... despite the profound advances in molecular biology oer the past half-century, we still do not understand what life is, how it… — Addy Pross Copy Share Image
Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Unlike the traditionally accepted theories of evolution and natural selection, Black’s view stressed that mutations are not accidents; instead, they are the… — E.B. Hudspeth Copy Share Image
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
“Thanks to subsequent years of conversations with evolutionists, especially Williams, and with medical school residents and faculty, he has found that an… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Given the power of modern molecular techniques, it is easy to forget that the ultimate objective of physiological discoveries is to find… — Oné R. Pagán Copy Share Image
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There are, of course, still people out there who think that the reproductive functions of women's bodies should exclude them from the… — Emer O'Toole Copy Share Image
A 70-year-old who takes good care of herself can have the biology of a 40-year-old. Conversely, a hard-living 30-year-old who has been… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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