“The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is… — Richard Smalley Copy Share Image
“To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not… — Herbert Spencer Jennings Copy Share Image
The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Evolution presupposes an innate tendency toward progress and increasing order and complexity in the universe, but the second law of thermodynamics proves… — Dr. Henry Morris Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr 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
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my… — George Emil Palade Copy Share Image
“Bejan’s theory has three tenets: Life is flow: All flow systems are live systems, the animate and the inanimate. Design generation and… — Nick Gogerty Copy Share Image
One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are… — Alan Haselhurst Copy Share Image
In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations… — James A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Only a minority of biologists today hold that the variation of evolution cannot be random. In this point the minority are on… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry 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
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages.… — Curtis Sittenfeld 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
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the… — Freeman Dyson 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
In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls… — Robert J. Marks II Copy Share Image