Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
“There are many subtle variants of theistic evolution, but a typical version rests upon the following premises: The universe came into being… — Francis S. Collins 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
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Life may be chemistry, but it's a special circumstance of chemistry. Organisms exist not because of reactions that are possible, but because… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans.… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests,… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“If man is but a biological organism and biology itself may be reduced to a set of physical and chemical laws, it… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“E www ... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are… — Ronald A. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Thus by an unprejudiced observation of the animal kingdom, we reach the conclusion that wherever society exists at all, this principle may… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass 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
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — J.B.S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution… — Nick Webb Copy Share Image
For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth;… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
“The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her feet crossed… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“Monod proposed an analogy: Just as the biosphere stands above the world of nonliving matter, so an “abstract kingdom” rises above the… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The human condition is plagued with a labyrinth of shortcomings, frailties and limitations that hinder man from reaching his fullest potential. Therefore,… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s Allan Wilson and Mary-Claire King at Berkeley correctly theorized that the evolution of genes is less important than the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Our responsibility, as individual cells of a living organism, is to perform our individual functions as well as possible. Our orders come… — Paul S. Williams Copy Share Image
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
