I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well… — Swami Vivekananda 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
For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Cell division allows us as organisms to grow, to adapt, to recover, to repair—to live. And distorted and unleashed, it allows cancer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The double-helix has solved all three of the major challenges of genetic physiology using ingenious variations on the same theme. Mirror-image chemicals… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“The precious … uniqueness which the human individual claims is conferred on him not by possession of an immortal soul but by possession of… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“In the movie The Matrix, Agent Smith (an AI) articulates this sentiment: “Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts,… — Caroline Myss 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
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
“One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. An apple tree growing from an apple seed… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Evolution and the resulting environmental changes are the practice and invention of Mother Nature known as "conservation" - not the practice of… — Anthony P. Mauro, Sr Copy Share Image
After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn.… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic… — Natalia Rose Copy Share Image
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Whether plain or gorgeous, we've learned to appreciate [secure-type people] for what they really are -- the "supermates" of evolution -- and… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite,… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image