A paradigm shift is the best a scientist can hope for. Whenever I smell an opportunity like that, I go after it.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“You can’t really plan for the success of a biological organism without considering the context of its ecological environment. In the same… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the… — Nick Harkaway 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
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ]… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Indeed, we humans bear witness to the process of evolution in the very composition of our bodies. The calcium that gives solidity… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Wherever people are in their evolution, they start to come into that hope and feeling like they are okay, that they're going… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“You, right this minute, stand at the growing tip of evolution. The next thing you think, the next action you take, will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Through our failure to acknowledge our oneness with the total of other population s of biological organisms...we reveal the egocentricity which has… — John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment Copy Share Image
“This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have… — William James Copy Share Image
The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later. — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify… — James Redford Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
“A living organism does the best it can with its given situation. If a root encounters a stone, it grows around it.… — David Bagby Copy Share Image
“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
