Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
“Were genuine aliens to find us… the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“When the underlying dream changes, when we successfully remove the blinders of the old cosmological conditioning, we will be able to apply… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
“The fact is that there are two traditions of explanation that march side by side in the ascent of man. One is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. Because of the fact that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The Tae-Bo guy has a good body on him. I believe in evolution as far as lifting and training and building muscle.… — Roman Reigns Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
“There’s no doubt that your genes contain very important information, but 65% of the influence can be attributed to the environment and… — Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir Copy Share Image
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
“Virtually all the authors of popular books on the subject assert that ADD is a heritable genetic disorder. With some notable exceptions,… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Horvitz and his colleagues discovered several genes that coded for the effectors of cell death in nematodes—the death genes. Their findings were… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Although we fully understand the genetic code-i.e., how the information in a single gene is used to build a protein-we comprehend virtually… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and religious narratives.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Thus the name of the game when it comes to evolution is not obtaining food or other resources: it is reproduction. Which… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“I guess you could say I’ve got a monkey on my back. A monkey named Darwin.” He shrugged off the trench coat… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how,… — Diane Wood Copy Share Image
“The passage from Genesis points to a mystery greater still. It says that we came from farther away than space and longer… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“The scientists not only sanctified human feelings, but also found an excellent evolutionary reason to do so. After Darwin, biologists began explaining… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“...natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
