We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
“In biology, fungus is a kingdom unto itself, a documented land of rot and decay, a place for yeasts and molds and… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
“We walk through another part of the building. While we wait for an elevator, Dr. Kenyon unfolds a dinner-size napkin and holds… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
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
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
“As evolutionary neurobiologists Leah Krubitzer and Jon Kaas put it, Although the phenotype generated is context-dependent, the ability to respond to the… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly"… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
“The platypus, as it turns out, derives its DNA from a menagerie of creatures. When its genome was fully decoded, it was… — B.C.CHASE Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
