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
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
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
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
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
“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group - bacteria,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The question of surrender is political, it is not a question of love. And relationship is not love at all; it means… — Rajneesh 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
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible… — Nessa Carey Copy Share Image
“Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
“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
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
“In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman,… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the… — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“You sit in your chair and ignore it, Moldenke. You remain. Evolution continues, Moldenke remains. You remind me of pi, Moldenke --… — David Ohle Copy Share Image