“But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“The macromolecules of organic life embody information in an intricate structure. A single hemoglobin molecule comprises four chains of polypeptides, two with… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you had megaphones on your chest they'd listen to the words that came out of your lips” — Amby C. Ezem Copy Share Image
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
“Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on?… — Ralph Abraham Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. — Anthony J. D'Angelo Copy Share Image
“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Algebra applies to the clouds, the radiance of the star benefits the rose--no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
