Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood. — Sylvia Earle 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
Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died,… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
“To save the human race and the world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Ultimately, climate change, infectious diseases and famine could meet their match with applied and synthetic biology. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
“My conclusion is a startling one. I think it very likely—in fact inevitable—that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“Just listen to this: take two fruit flies and leave them in ideal living conditions for a year - equivalent to 25… — Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson Copy Share Image
Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions… — American Anthropological Association Copy Share Image
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Synthetic biology will be the future of manufacturing, engineering and medicine. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Every living being is the embodiment of a tiny part of the Universal mind, represented in that organism.” — Sahara Sanders Copy Share Image
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.” — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Ive got 99 problems and being a decaying organism thats born to die in a society run by money that I cant… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image