Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
“A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Conscious Evolution "Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Your brain is shaped by the realities of the world that you find yourself in, including the social world made by agreement… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of… — Louis T. Moore Copy Share Image
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
“Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment.” — Reginald H. Garrett Copy Share Image
That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to… — George Wald Copy Share Image
One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates… — Friedrich Loeffler Copy Share Image
“The most important surviving relics of the primitive plants are mosses and ferns, which give us a clue to how ancient plants… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
“Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Morgan had discovered an important modification to Mendel's laws. Genes did not travel separately; instead, they moved in packs. Packets of information… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized. — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else. — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is… — Ronan O'Rahilly Copy Share Image
“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image