“None of these systems, whether “natural” or man-made, can operate without a continuous supply of energy and resources that have to be… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“I recommend Richard Dawkins’s and E. O. Wilson’s books on evolution. If I had to pick just one, it would be Dawkins’s… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls? — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
“But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“This little book has been written in the hope that it may appeal to several classes of readers. Not infrequently I have… — Reginald Crundall Punnett Copy Share Image
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage. — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton Copy Share Image
I teach biology, it's kind of a difficult science and time is limited. As far as I'm concerned, it's all about the… — Danny Lloyd Copy Share Image
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact… — Franz Alexander Copy Share Image