No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“Humans are actually reservoir hosts for countless bacteria and viruses that haven’t even been classified yet. About twenty percent of the genetic… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“Evolution takes its sweet time in its work on our collective consciousness; the lasting leap from fear to love in the human… — Andrew Forsthoefel Copy Share Image
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
People don't change so much as they evolve, and this evolution tends to be towards what, deep within, they were all along. — TJay Taylor Copy Share Image
“We are just particles of the Universe;Our true story is written upon the Stars dear... Life is just an experience ,an experiential… — Katerina Kostaki Copy Share Image
“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
“Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In… — Brenda Wilmoth Lerner Copy Share Image
As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“You're familiar with the theory of evolution?" asked Cabal. "Sir?" "They're about to find out why intelligence is a survival trait.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
“The crucial first step to survival in all organisms is habitat selection. If you get to the right place, everything else is… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of… — Frances Arnold 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
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
What fundamentally makes a Targaryen is an inner fire that is, in some way, in your genetics. — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
When you free women so they can choose to have or not to have, or to conceive - that's something that, for… — Lynne Tillman 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
“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided… — Maarten Boudry Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are… — John Jacob Abel 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
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