Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read… — George Emil Palade Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain… — Buket Uzuner Copy Share Image
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property. — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular belief, the gene-centered theory of evolution does not imply that the point of all human striving is to spread… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Neither genetics nor 'programming' nor 'Vicious Voices' in your head, can command one's destiny!" ~ © gfp '42™” — Gary Patton Copy Share Image
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“The third way to change the laws of life is to engineer completely inorganic beings. The most obvious examples are computer programs… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer.… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life. — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology. — Naftali Bennett Copy Share Image
Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you… — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
“Evolution is antifragile! While individuals in the population are fragile, the population as a whole is antifragile.” — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information… — Saul Gorn Copy Share Image
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict… — William Beaumont Copy Share Image
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Change is at the very core of evolution and without it, all creatures would look alike and behave the same way. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves.” — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
