Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. — Adrian Forsyth Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“you don’t need to understand any of the biology, just as you don’t need to understand radiation to use a microwave oven.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
An organism without its nature is a being outside the Nature, which, technically, is not realizable in the very near existence of… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Evolution isn't 'survival of the fittest,' for Christ's sake. In the long run, linearly, it's survival of the most prolific.” — Ron Sanders Copy Share Image
Us, we are but a step on the ladder of evolution, specimens that inherit, learn, create and develop their inner and outer… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents,… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“These changes are all fundamentally Darwinian. This point is worth repeating: taking any fast or instant evolutionary shifts as a refutation of… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built… — T.H. Janabi Copy Share Image
“For in the ever-repeated origination of highly organized individuals from an infinitesimal germ, the working-out of a prearranged plan of growth and… — Hans Jonas 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
“A second point that caught my attention was that the very persons who insist upon keeping religion and science separate are eager… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study… — Walter M. Elsasser Copy Share Image
In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war. — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“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
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need… — Jacques Diouf Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Evolution doesn’t really have a destination. It’s just dicking around with possibilities.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law. — Errol White 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
I'm an astrobiologist, and I come from a planetary science background, so in a very broad sense, I study the evolution of… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
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