No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I don't think in biology it's very controversial at all. Whether certain behavior is culture or is not culture is argued. I… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
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