I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“This is the contrary of the Darwin that we mainly receive from the Darwinists. The survival of the fittest is supposed to… — William Bryant Logan Copy Share Image
“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“There are no secrets. Nothing is withheld by God. Yet, it is only by our own sincere searching, the evolutionary stage we… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve toward a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being; to return to Eden, make… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Many bright people are really in the dark about vegetable life. Biology teachers face kids in classrooms who may not even believe… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“In 1902, Marcellin P. Berthelot , often called the founder of modern organic chemistry, was one of France's most celebrated scientists—if not… — Robert K. Wilcox Copy Share Image
Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine… — Raul O. Leguizamon Copy Share Image
We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian… — Thomas Dwight Copy Share Image
“Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental than differences. Less fundamental, but no less… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place,… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of… — Raymond Dart Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“In 1977, when Fred Sanger had sequenced the genome of the phiX virus, with 5,386 bases of DNA, that number represented the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I… — Darrel R. Falk Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of martial arts, even before I did jiu-jitsu tournaments. I did point karate tournaments and wrestled in… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
“In 1924, Frank E. Denny, a scientist from the US Department of Agriculture in Los Angeles, demonstrated that kerosene smoke contains minute… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be… — Theodor Schwann Copy Share Image
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