Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“Your brain is shaped by the realities of the world that you find yourself in, including the social world made by agreement… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
“Algebra applies to the clouds, the radiance of the star benefits the rose--no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“While the process of evolution is often characterized in terms of dog-eat-dog competition and the “survival of the fittest,” this new research… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures… — Kevin Kelly 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
“The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“The emotional mind likewise transcends the facile and appealing dualism separating its psychological and biological aspects. Physical mechanisms produce one’s experience of… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“sociobiologists are not merely willing, but devoted, "Slaves of the Gene."" They believe that an organism-a man, say-is epiphenomenal to his genes:… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Viewed in this light, life itself appears as a dynamics of integration that is equipped with auto-therapeutic or 'endo-clinical' competencies and refers… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is:… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Visitors reported by contactees, abductees, and other witnesses may, in fact, be a highly advanced amphibian or reptilian culture from an… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie… — Jonathan Kingdon Copy Share Image
“(...) to think that worms and slugs are neurologically simple is another blunder of contemporary, scientifically uninformed philosophy. To take as an… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
“... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“When all the forces in your organism come into play, then life will begin to play around you as well. You'll see… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“The most important surviving relics of the primitive plants are mosses and ferns, which give us a clue to how ancient plants… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opposed to mentioning… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
