“Naive Darwinists, including many capitalists, have self-servingly argued that oppression of the weak and the poor is a justified application of natural… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton Copy Share Image
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Some thirty miles east of the statue, with much less fanfare, another monument was nearing completion. At Cold Spring Harbor on Long… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A hypothesis in regard to… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“Look at any randomly selected piece of your world. Encoded deep in the biology of every cell in every blade of grass,… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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![“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the nature and content of genetic information that has propelled biology for the last hundred years. The scientific progress made [since that time] falls naturally into…” quote by Siddharta Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82e/siddharta-mukherjee-40937_biology_the-rediscovery-of-mendel-s-laws-of-here_989954.jpg)
![“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and you will see it referred in the Biometrika memoir. The Mendelian formula leads up to the 'ancestral law'. What we fought against was the slovenliness in applying Mendel 's…” quote by Karl Pearson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0cc/karl-pearson-25336_biology_there-is-nothing-opposed-in-biometry-and_1929238.jpg)
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