“The easiest intellectual analogue of pure Quality that people in our environment can understand is that ‘Quality is the response of an… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“reacts to us in a way that reinforces our genetic predisposition. Again, it would be an oversimplification to say that our environment… — Chris Masi Copy Share Image
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
“These systems,” said Armour, referring to human brains, “are the product of evolution, optimized by evolution for a world which no longer… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers… — Susan Bordo Copy Share Image
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
“In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the conditions of human existence—life itself, natality and mortality, worldliness, plurality, and the earth—can never “explain” what we… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Why do we prize changing organism more than inorganic matter, unchanging and constant? If there be no change in the bright hues… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Neo-Darwinians do cite some examples of evolution they claim the NDT explains. Natural selection can indeed account for the replacement of light-colored… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
“Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, was to simulate the conditions on Earth in primordial times, three or four billion years ago, when… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“It has been pointed out by Boltzmann that the fundamental object of contention in the life-struggle, in the evolution of the organic… — Nick Gogerty Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why… — Eckhart Tolle 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
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
“Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman,… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
“In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these… — Francis S. Collins 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
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
