“But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The flow of biological information was not restricted to heredity. It… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“It is dynamic. In some cells, it reshuffles its own sequence to make novel variants of itself. Cells of the immune system… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of… — Richard Levins Copy Share Image
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
“If the Earth were as old as a person, a typical organism would be born, live and die in a sliver of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The irony, and inherent tension, of evolutionary biology is that this search for rational coherence - for "consilience," as Wilson likes to… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love.… — Amy Jenkins Copy Share Image
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
“Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The Everglades was the only place on earth where alligators (broad snout, fresh water, darker skin) and crocodiles (pointy snout, salt water,… — Michael Grunwald Copy Share Image
Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms;… — John Tyler Bonner 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
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Since the landmark 1972 paper by Gould and Eldredge, many studies have been done both with real populations and with mathematical simulations.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Evolution and the resulting environmental changes are the practice and invention of Mother Nature known as "conservation" - not the practice of… — Anthony P. Mauro, Sr Copy Share Image
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