Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Did Akin study basic biology at any point in his life? This is a discussion from another time. We going to blame… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
“Philosophy which does not seek to impose upon the world its own conceptions of good and evil is not only more likely… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Biological databases impose particular limitations on how biological objects can be related to one another. In other words, the structure of a… — Hallam Stevens Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“THE evidence for evolution grows by the day, and has never been stronger. At the same time, paradoxically, ill-informed opposition is also… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Whether plain or gorgeous, we've learned to appreciate [secure-type people] for what they really are -- the "supermates" of evolution -- and… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“A tissue is evidently an enduring thing. It's functional and structural conditions become modified from moment to moment. Time is really the… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“A nutritive centre, anatomically considered, is merely a cell, the nucleus of which is the permanent source of successive broods of young… — John Goodsir Copy Share Image
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image