We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
“In biology, fungus is a kingdom unto itself, a documented land of rot and decay, a place for yeasts and molds and… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
“We walk through another part of the building. While we wait for an elevator, Dr. Kenyon unfolds a dinner-size napkin and holds… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. — J. Michael Bishop 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
It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly"… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
“The platypus, as it turns out, derives its DNA from a menagerie of creatures. When its genome was fully decoded, it was… — B.C.CHASE Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
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
Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Movement implies development and not evolution (C.F.D. Moule)." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage created by our two parents. Our higher purpose on earth… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and… — Nick Bostrom 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
All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
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