I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
“Plants can be affected by stray voltage and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands evolution knows that it doesn't necessarily lead from simpler to more complex life-forms. Rather, it leads to life-forms better… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the… — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point of destructiveness.… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves. — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Life is easy to identify but remarkably difficult to define. Too tight a definition excludes what looks like life and too loose… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“But biology does not readjust to accommodate the false theories of scientists …’ – James le Fanu, British physician” — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk ... Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read it… — Roger Adams Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“We must stand on the side of goodness, compassion and conscience, not to keep the processes in Nature functioning, but because if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
