The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Conflict forces one to better oneself. It forces change, growth, adaption, evolution… or death.” — Yuthura Ban Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“English: "To say that a car is not living is similar to saying that an enzyme is not living." Česky: „Říct, že… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom ,… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge:… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
“It is more than probable that there are factors of evolution still unknown. We can but seek for them. Nothing is more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century.… — Michael R. Rose Copy Share Image
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Each creature both great and small has evolved after millions of years of evolution serving an integrated and important part in the… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.” — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
“The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when… — Diarmaid MacCulloch Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Genetic evolutionists warn that if we fail to apply the lessons of our shared genetic destiny, which should be teaching us the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image