If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
“As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places… — Peter van Inwagen Copy Share Image
The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Most of the people who claim to be doing systems biology are really studying simple and complex molecular machines and how they… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
“Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“A nutritive centre, anatomically considered, is merely a cell, the nucleus of which is the permanent source of successive broods of young… — John Goodsir Copy Share Image
“Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the random movements of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Now I have two immediate objects in view. The first is to devote myself to the evolutionary life more thoroughly than I… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“be able to repair. But they’re doing it more smoothly. As if by design. That’s what was so astonishing when we saw… — Michael C. Grumley Copy Share Image
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes,… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“With the little changes that happen with reproduction, the configuration of your DNA and your genes can change for you and others… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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“Whatever variety evolution brings forth... Every new dimension of world-response...means another modality for God's trying out his hidden essence and discovering himself… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I placed some of the DNA on the ends of my fingers and rubbed them together. The stuff was sticky. It began… — Timothy Ferris Copy Share Image
The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens… — John Reader Copy Share Image
“Sadly, Our Dispirited Dream often conditions us to conform to a safe path rather than journey through the unknown in resonance with… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
“There is another kind of variation that does not involve the genome at all, and is therefore not heritable. Yet it can… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way,… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it… — Giulio Natta Copy Share Image
Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
![“Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas)” quote by D. T. Max](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/1f9/d-t-max-52011_evolution_protein-so-far-as-we-know-does-not-repli_2180917.jpg)
