The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was… — Rachel Carson 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
I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
“All sorts of changes in cellular machinery have shown up that have nothing to do with the sequence of DNA but still… — Thomas Hayden Copy Share Image
Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile,… — William Sims Copy Share Image
Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics? — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await… — Leonard Adleman Copy Share Image
“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“... despite the profound advances in molecular biology oer the past half-century, we still do not understand what life is, how it… — Addy Pross Copy Share Image
“What turns a person into a monster like this? Training? Some horrible event in his past? Genetics? How does a man lose… — Jack Kilborn Copy Share Image
Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling. — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
A paradigm shift is the best a scientist can hope for. Whenever I smell an opportunity like that, I go after it.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“You can’t really plan for the success of a biological organism without considering the context of its ecological environment. In the same… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ]… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Indeed, we humans bear witness to the process of evolution in the very composition of our bodies. The calcium that gives solidity… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Wherever people are in their evolution, they start to come into that hope and feeling like they are okay, that they're going… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
![“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ] to the living world. In the latter part of it, Erasmus Darwin , Goethe , and Lamarck took up the work more vigorously and with better qualifications. The question of special…” quote by Thomas Henry Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d37/thomas-henry-huxley-14414_benoit-de-maillet_in-the-beginning-of-the-eighteenth-centu_2375328.jpg)
