Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
“I’m asking you to give me a chance, however slim, to prove myself.” My throat tightened. “Cade…I’m not a science experiment.” “Good… — Beth Mikell Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“You are thinking.'' he said. ''that my face is old and tired. You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The quest for knowledge is the essence of science. The science of biology is a quest to gain a knowledge of living… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind that right and wrong are not matters of opinion. They are principles we must discover and apply. They are… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Our bones are more gracile than those of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors, our personalities less aggressive, our societies more trusting and cohesive.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I attended Florida State University on an academic and leadership scholarship, changed my major from biology to broadcasting, and transferred to the… — Ainsley Earhardt Copy Share Image
I suppose the marine biology was a post-teen thing. I was kind of on my way but I was one of those… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I want to be a member of the team that helps in any way possible for the evolution of people's souls. Because… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
My parents have always been incredibly supportive, driving me back and forth to Stratford and so on. They realised from an early… — Gwilym Lee Copy Share Image
“I believe we have inherited a world of suffering that must be transcended through the development of pointed direction, fostering an evolution… — Albert Jackson Copy Share Image
Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“We as a human community need to develop a new competency. We need to move from a single-cell social organism to a… — David Gershon Copy Share Image
The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense,… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could… — Maurice Wilkins Copy Share Image
I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths GCSE – I really liked it… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
