The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology… — Timothy Leary 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
A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“All sorts of changes in cellular machinery have shown up that have nothing to do with the sequence of DNA but still… — Thomas Hayden Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
“That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines -… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The sweetest thing I could say about my mother and father is that if I had the choice, I would have picked… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“This brings me back to the statement that thee is no such thing as living matter. In the cell, all the parts… — Wallace Johnson Copy Share Image
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“All organisms can make the most basic distinctions--between food and not-food, danger and safety, light and dark, same-species and not-same. But only… — Scott Huler Copy Share Image
“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Philosophy which does not seek to impose upon the world its own conceptions of good and evil is not only more likely… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom ,… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jennings Bryan, but he fails to… — Henry Fairfield Osborn 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
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“... it is no longer an organism that functions but a BwO that is constructed. No longer are there acts to explain,… — Gilles Deleuze / Felix Guatari Copy Share Image
“Even before the exact answer was reached, Crick crystallized its fundamental principles in a statement that he called (and is called to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
![“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an…” quote by James Lovelock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d7b/james-lovelock-5790_20th-century_we-are-the-intelligent-elite-among-anima_1833228.jpg)
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