There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from… — Gerald A. Kerkut Copy Share Image
“An accurate view of evolution, in all its multifaceted and anarchic glory... We are all evolved creatures who share a common way… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
“Today, the 4-billion-year-old regime of natural selection is facing a completely different challenge. In laboratories throughout the world, scientists are engineering living… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The sea barrier prevented not just humans but also many other Afro-Asian animals and plants from reaching this ‘Outer World’. As a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I described living cells as being crammed full of protein molecules. Acting individually or in small assemblies, they perform reiterated molecular processes… — Dennis Bray Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“So here we find that the animals, and the plants, the vegetation, became living souls, and were created spiritually before they were… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If these d'Herelle bodies were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Unlike the laws of reality that scientist describe in complex mathematical equations, the laws that govern human behavior are imprecise and in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people? Catastrophe unmitigated. Socialrevolution. The cultured aristocrat yanked out… — E. E. Cummings Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact,… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group--bacteria, mice, people--and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“1.Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms and life is data processing. 2.Intelligence is decoupling from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“I approach the creation-evolution dispute not as a scientist but as a problem of law, which means among other things that I… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not… — Ralph W. Gerard Copy Share Image
Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“The longing for the fusion with another organism in the genital embrace is just as strong in the armored organism as it… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
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