A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many,… — Sharon Stone 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
“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“As evolutionary neurobiologists Leah Krubitzer and Jon Kaas put it, Although the phenotype generated is context-dependent, the ability to respond to the… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Nature is not infallible. Nature makes mistakes. That's what evolution is all about: growth by trail and error. Nature can be stupid… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, and by accepting–and embracing–the theory of evolution,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when… — Diarmaid MacCulloch Copy Share Image
“He has also made the offspring dependent on the parents and given the parents an impulse to support it-thus producing the Family,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Central to Piaget's framework - and often ignored even by those who count themselves as Piagetian - is this activity, equilibration. Whether… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I like to say two things in life that mean the most: genetics and luck. When you look at it realistically, genetics… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into "material" and "message," but abstractly, he had captured one of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in… — Sharman Apt Russell Copy Share Image
Life is all about creating a balance. Moderation is the name of the game. We are what we eat, breathe and think.… — Dr Neil Pande Kathmandu Nepal 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
“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
“Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It is conceivable that an interplay of genes and epigenes coordinates human embryogenesis. Let us return, yet again, to Morgan's problem: the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“I recently asked more than seventy eminent researchers if they would have done I their work differently if they had thought Darwin's… — Philip S. Skell Copy Share Image
“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image