I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The more in tune we are with nature and the more we actually observe our surroundings, the easier it is for us… — Warren Cassell Jr Copy Share Image
“From an evolutionary perspective, the closest thing we have to a human essence is our DNA, and the DNA molecule is the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at… — Matt Frewer Copy Share Image
A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many,… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The evolutionists, piercing beneath the show of momentary stability, discovered, hidden in rudimentary organs, the discarded rubbish of the past. They detected… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“probably the most important fact about genetics and culture is the delayed maturation of the frontal cortex—the genetic programming for the young… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative… — William James Copy Share Image
“My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to.… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened… — Theodosius Dobzhansky 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
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead 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
Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
I'm taking care of my body, getting my treatment, I'm in the weight room... I'm doing everything I can to stay healthy,… — Shaun Livingston Copy Share Image
“Biology is a force to be reckoned with. An ugly child you love with all your heart and soul, you. But it's… — Herman koch Copy Share Image
I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got… — Matt Frewer Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology… — Alan Ball 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
“if you come up with something the world values, you almost can’t help but be rewarded. Conversely, reality tends to penalize those… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century.… — Michael R. Rose Copy Share Image
