If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or… — Andrew H. Knoll 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
“But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the… — Barry Price Copy Share Image
“Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level… — Clifford Grobstein 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
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“(...) to think that worms and slugs are neurologically simple is another blunder of contemporary, scientifically uninformed philosophy. To take as an… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
“Our bones are more gracile than those of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors, our personalities less aggressive, our societies more trusting and cohesive.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to… — Theodor Schwann Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that… — Anohni 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
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
“Life is undoubtedly born of biology, but if a lifeform strictly constructs all its perception living inside the ship-shape well of biology,… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either… — Deepak Chopra 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
It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced… — Ziya Tong 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
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible… — Nils Heribert-Nilsson Copy Share Image
A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
