“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and… — Carl Woese Copy Share Image
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve through changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through changes in their code. And like… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
“Any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Living organisms are constructed, for the most part, from compounds of carbon and hydrogen. Carbon is critical because of its astonishing flexibility.… — David Christian Copy Share Image
In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This… — John Hagel Copy Share Image
“About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. The… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in… — David Stoddart Copy Share Image
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Let's admit that feminism came from liberalism and it was very positive. But then it went dark. It went into a bad… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
What I want to do is demonstrate that biology can learn how to make a vast array of molecules that people thought… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It took the full force of human genetics to bring sanity to the study of madness.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love. — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image
“The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.” — Martin E.P. Seligman Copy Share Image
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through contribution.” — Capies Pitts Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“A kind of bias I share says that if a human thinks symmetry is important it may or may not be, but… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world. — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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