[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The story of Noah is self-contradictory, uncorroborated by independent historical evidence, and is generally at odds with everything we know about our… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“biology is usually called upon to justify a society based on selfish principles, but we should never forget that it has also… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
“At the same time, Bezos became enamored with a book called Creation, by Steve Grand, the developer of a 1990s video game… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Every generation of humans will produce variants and mutants; it is an inextricable part of our biology. A mutation is only “abnormal”… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in the "Lamarckian" mode - by the inheritance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
“Life is easy to identify but remarkably difficult to define. Too tight a definition excludes what looks like life and too loose… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the conditions of human existence—life itself, natality and mortality, worldliness, plurality, and the earth—can never “explain” what we… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved… The precise… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“The tightness of genetic linkage, in short, was a surrogate for the physical proximity of genes on chromosomes: by measuring how often… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game… — David Buss Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of ontogenesis.1 In other words, the development of the stem, or race, is, in accordance with the… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“(I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff.… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
“Were it not for the melanin in our skin, myoglobin in our muscles and haemoglobin in our blood, we would be the… — Guy Brown Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or… — Michael Moritz Copy Share Image
Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein… — Oscar Hertwig Copy Share Image
The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
“If organisms indeed lack free will, it implies that we can manipulate and even control their desires using drugs, genetic engineering or… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
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