“Life may be chemistry, but it's a special circumstance of chemistry. Organisms exist not because of reactions that are possible, but because… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre. — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“(...) to think that worms and slugs are neurologically simple is another blunder of contemporary, scientifically uninformed philosophy. To take as an… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
1)It is obvious, for survival and problem solving purposes, we live in two worlds, the mind and the environment. The environment is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to ‘consciousness’ of human knowledge.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“A distinct germ line maintains continuity from generation to generation, regardless of what happens to the rest of the body. In this… — Robert Martin Copy Share Image
This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“The crucial first step to survival in all organisms is habitat selection. If you get to the right place, everything else is… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before. — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
“Curiosity, that is, the separate drive to explore the world disinterestedly, without being stimulated by danger or physiological dissatisfaction, is, according to… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Thanks to subsequent years of conversations with evolutionists, especially Williams, and with medical school residents and faculty, he has found that an… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The fact that our current planetary evolution is built upon one creature having to physically consume another to survive shows our deep… — Richard Rudd Copy Share Image
“Biodiversity is a result of the process of evolution, and it is also a safety net that helps keep that process going.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image