Biology Quotes · Page 32

“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.”

— Bill Joy

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

— Daniel Levitin

“Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.”

— Steven Pinker

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

— Ken Ham

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat…

— Robert A. Heinlein

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over…

— Kevin Kelly

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

— Daniel Levitin

“Evolution is antifragile! While individuals in the population are fragile, the population as a whole is antifragile.”

— Rich Jolly

“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

We have a creative drive, but not all creative experiments are successful. In nature, there are many lineages of organisms that you…

— Greg Graffin

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in…

— Jonathan Sacks

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are…

— Stephen Hawking

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are…

— George Wald

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing…

— Jerome Groopman

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

“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could…

— Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided…

— Maarten Boudry

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other…

— Erick Erickson

“Death is only relevant to "genetic adaptation" insofar as it relates to the capacity for self-reproduction (what is relevant is not that…

— Mitchell Heisman

“He saw that there is a spectrum of variation between species that comes into being slowly, tiny change by tiny change. He…

— Bill Nye

Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a…

— Ellen Key

“The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread…

— Yuval Noah Harari

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to…

— Greg Graffin

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

— Stephen Baldwin

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

— Aldo Leopold

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

— Bela Karolyi

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan…

— Kent Hovind

Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more…

— David Brin

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

— Iain McGilchrist

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each…

— Anonymous

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

— John Maynard Smith

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years…

— Mark Twain

“Your future life will be the result of all the evolution and growth you have experienced between now and then.”

— Janet, Bray Attwood

“The only unstoppable organism in the universe, is the mind that embraces evolution over limitation.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“improving on the natural course if evolution—which, attendees argued, could be so cruel as to justify some sort of intervention.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

— W. Richard Stevens