In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be… — Paul D. Boyer 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
“A gene," Beadle wrote in 1945, "can be visualized as directing the final configuration of a protein molecule." This was the "action… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The macromolecules of organic life embody information in an intricate structure. A single hemoglobin molecule comprises four chains of polypeptides, two with… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I know some very intelligent philosophers, not at all dogmatic, who believe that “science” cannot introduce the concept of finality in the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the… — Jason Silva 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
“human beings were a part of the complex system of interactions among living organisms that made up an ecosystem, rather than apart… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image