“Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
“I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only evolutionary possibility on… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
I don't want them to have to be the one to come tell me, 'Hey, you performing at the top of your… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
The evolution has to take place still within us to know ourselves. We can say that unless and until it is put… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“That this seemingly simple mechanism—cell growth without barriers—can lie at the heart of this grotesque and multifaceted illness is a testament to… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects.… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“It is the impulse of science to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
“You sit in your chair and ignore it, Moldenke. You remain. Evolution continues, Moldenke remains. You remind me of pi, Moldenke --… — David Ohle Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
“Evolution has produced us more recently, and that makes us the smartest ever. After all, we invented the parking lot.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that… — Everett C. Olson Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
