Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It is more than probable that there are factors of evolution still unknown. We can but seek for them. Nothing is more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only evolutionary possibility on… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“In the history of the evolution of the family, you and the millions of other migrants like you represent an ongoing proliferation… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
“If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Sometimes the… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
“If we think in term of months, we had probably focus on immediate problems such as the turmoil in the Middle East,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
“Instead of explaining everything by the supposed supremacy of a law of evolution, which compels collective phenomena to reproduce and repeat themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My view is that diversity is the breath of life, and we must not abandon that for any single form which happens… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely… — Errol White Copy Share Image
“George Gey paid his way through a biology degree at the University of Pittsburgh by working as a carpenter and mason, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What is natural selection? Do organisms develop due to an environment, or does the environment only trigger the potential to evolve in… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology,fate . . . until we… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Maybe everyone else thinks your aversion to food is cute- but not me. I've watched you watch Jill. Here's some tough love:… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully designing shiny weapons on modern computers. But there's… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“There is a significant hereditary contribution to ADD but I do not believe any genetic factor is decisive in the emergence of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it… — Momus Copy Share Image