“My view is that diversity is the breath of life, and we must not abandon that for any single form which happens… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery Copy Share Image
“Will it be possible to solve these problems? It is certain that nobody has thus far observed the transformation of dead into… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu. — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
I think it's a theory, the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Keynes concluded that citizens both rich and poor would have to be led gradually out of capitalism, a base and repugnant system… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
“Sixty-some years ago, biochemical organisms began to assemble digital computers. Now digital computers are beginning to assemble biochemical organisms. Viewed from a… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital...the machine code of the genes… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005,… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“An organism is not an inert lump of matter, but a dynamic system: it survives by taking in new matter, extracting energy… — Eric T. Olson Copy Share Image
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as… — Huntington Willard Copy Share Image
The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution is the single greatest force in the universe; it is the only thing that is permanent and it drives everything.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long-… — Daniel E. Lieberman Copy Share Image
I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are! — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image