In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals. — David Christian Copy Share Image
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense” — Vladimir Nobokov Copy Share Image
Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity, — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can’t teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying… — Gregory Cochran Copy Share Image
I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career, and the art would be something I did for… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. — G. Ledyard Stebbins Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you know the full lyrics of over 100 songs, but cant remember 25 biology definitions — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The mysteries of psychology pale in comparison, just as evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Richard Dawkins would be the first to agree: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been… — J. Warner Wallace Copy Share Image
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“The circular flow of biological information - Genes encode RNAs to build Proteins to form/regulate Organisms that sense Environments that influence Proteins,… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“I mention all this to make the point that if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000)… It… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Biodiversity is a result of the process of evolution, and it is also a safety net that helps keep that process going.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The flow of biological information was not restricted to heredity. It… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“While it is wise to think globally, all organisms are affected locally!” — Jim Steele Copy Share Image
My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image