I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Engels’s view of evolution was Lamarckian, rather than strictly Darwinian, in that he believed that characteristics acquired by individuals could be inherited… — Terrell Carver Copy Share Image
What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents,… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
“a worldwide flood destroyed all life on earth about five thousand years ago requires denying an immense amount of generally accepted knowledge—from… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“Teachers seeking to 'teach the controversy' over Darwinian evolution in today's climate will likely be met with false warnings that it is… — David K. DeWolf Copy Share Image
“We were seated in a sparkling new building on the UBC campus with austere modern lines and sleek, minimalist décor—about as sterile… — Kathleen McAuliffe Copy Share Image
As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems,… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Us, we are but a step on the ladder of evolution, specimens that inherit, learn, create and develop their inner and outer… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must… — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“The third way to change the laws of life is to engineer completely inorganic beings. The most obvious examples are computer programs… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“The supernatural presides over man's formation always. . . Life is that evidence of supernatural endowment which originally entered nature during the… — Pauline Hopkins Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet.… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Through our failure to acknowledge our oneness with the total of other population s of biological organisms...we reveal the egocentricity which has… — John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment Copy Share Image
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image