The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
“The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“The advances of science and technology will bring us to the greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham: how… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“From year to year, and from age to age, we see [biologists] at work, adding no doubt much to the unknown, and… — Robert Chambers Copy Share Image
“It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Society has already become a most artificial system of complicated relations, a gigantic organism, wherein all members are closely connected. All this… — Herman Bavinck 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
We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don't have enough coming into physics and engineering. It's… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“There was an interesting early relationship between physics and biology in which biology helped physics in the discovery of the conservation of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An… — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Who can live the same moment twice? In comparison with an organism, inorganic matter appears to be constant and changeless; but, in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I teach biology, it's kind of a difficult science and time is limited. As far as I'm concerned, it's all about the… — Danny Lloyd Copy Share Image
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
My whole interest is, how do you use evolution as an innovation engine? How does evolution solve new problems that life faces?… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image