“reacts to us in a way that reinforces our genetic predisposition. Again, it would be an oversimplification to say that our environment… — Chris Masi Copy Share Image
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers… — Susan Bordo Copy Share Image
“These systems,” said Armour, referring to human brains, “are the product of evolution, optimized by evolution for a world which no longer… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
It's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very… — Michael Levitt Copy Share Image
“Cancer is often associated with death but is also very much about life. It is about the basic principles of biology, the… — Jarle Breivik Copy Share Image
“When viewed at the next quantum level of perspective, from which the Earth is seen as an organism and humans are seen… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new… — William King Gregory Copy Share Image
A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because the alternative of supposing an independent origin of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and… — William James Copy Share Image
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very… — Christina Koch Copy Share Image
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“The irony, and inherent tension, of evolutionary biology is that this search for rational coherence - for "consilience," as Wilson likes to… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Even as a kid enthralled with science fiction, I wondered about the role of people in the long-term evolution of the Earth,… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
“In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs.… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
“Everything comes from experience; yet not from actual experience, reiterated by each individual with each generation, but instead from experience accumulated by… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
