The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“o live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution. — Sanjaya Malakar Copy Share Image
Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
The convergence of information technology and biology allows scientists to translate the human genome into digital data that can accelerate diagnoses and… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We are creators in the process of our own evolution. In this way, we are gods in our own universe. Self evolving… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from… — Gerald A. Kerkut Copy Share Image
“An accurate view of evolution, in all its multifaceted and anarchic glory... We are all evolved creatures who share a common way… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter… — Jonathan Clements 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
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.” — B.V. Lawson Copy Share Image
“Not only is the organism a part of the physical universe but the world of organisms itself is one family.” — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere! — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor Copy Share Image
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species. — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics? — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. — John Tooby Copy Share Image