As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Muller was catapulted into the international fame by his discovery. The effect of radiation on the mutation rate in flies had two… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
“Used in combination with genomics, AI could help pharma companies to develop new drugs for rare diseases. The rarer a disease is,… — Ronald M. Razmi Copy Share Image
“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“In my biology class, we'd talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature, a thing needs to… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“What is self and what is other may be a question of the person's 'biology,' but it is equally a question of… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is,… — Alan I. Leshner Copy Share Image
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have… — William James Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world can be absolute except the Absolute itself. Everything else is contained and exists in relations. Relations can exist… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
“It seems to me trivially true that particle physics does in fact deal with the simplest objects in the entire universe: atoms… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“He saw that there is a spectrum of variation between species that comes into being slowly, tiny change by tiny change. He… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Our bones are more gracile than those of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors, our personalities less aggressive, our societies more trusting and cohesive.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Even if the intelligent design of some structure has been established, it still is a separate question whether a wise, powerful, and… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And… — Mikhail Varshavski Copy Share Image
“And as I sat there, I realised that the questions intersecting life, death, and meaning, questions that all people face at some… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
