We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“There's a way to resolve chaos and that's to finish what was started, and every organism knows this emergency plan without being… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“What the Western World uses as a basis for “natural” and “unnatural” is not biology, but rather Christian theology.” — FastReads Copy Share Image
“Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause… — Scott A. Minnich Copy Share Image
“Homo industrialis. We are so industrial (but not so wise) that we are creating a world more like the late Precambrian than… — Lisa-Ann Gershwin Copy Share Image
The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of… — George Wald Copy Share Image
A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Which meant that the people working on Up had to be able to roll with that evolution without panicking, shutting down, or… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.” — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
Getting married and having children is an evolution process, a live social experiment no one is documenting. — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
“biological corollary to a meme is, of course, a gene, a unit of heredity transmitted from an organism to its offspring.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their… — Hannah Landecker Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate… — Ernest Everett Just Copy Share Image
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact,… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
“evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
