Biology Quotes · Page 117

The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can…

— Eckhart Tolle

If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas…

— Jon Stewart

“the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense”

— Vladimir Nobokov

Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a…

— Alice Roberts

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

— George Santayana

Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

— Cordelia Fine

Young people in their twenties spend three-four years doing things that are behind the times. We're capturing such people in a classroom…

— Sonam Wangchuk

“(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his…

— Felix D'Herelle

We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely…

— Jean Gebser

“The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience…

— Jonathan Wells

“The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic…

— Michael J. Sandel

Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a…

— Ellen Key

I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple,…

— Biz Stone

We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not…

— Iyanla Vanzant

i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow…

— Craig Clevenger

Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

“The harmony of the human body is a prototype for personal and communal evolution.”

— Nancy Mellon

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a…

— Jeff Hawkins

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

— Carl Rogers

“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

— Edward Hoagland

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

— Michael Ruse

“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their…

— Marcello Malpighi

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically…

— Spencer Wells