Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile,… — William Sims Copy Share Image
“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In the external world, she is the force of evolution, the erotic thrust at the heart of life. She is the intrinsic… — Sally Kempton Copy Share Image
Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on?… — Ralph Abraham Copy Share Image
It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“1.6 Understand nature’s practical lessons. a. Maximize your evolution. b. Remember “no pain, no gain.” c. It is a fundamental law of nature that in… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“When all the forces in your organism come into play, then life will begin to play around you as well. You'll see… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“The most important surviving relics of the primitive plants are mosses and ferns, which give us a clue to how ancient plants… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Sometimes the… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only evolutionary possibility on… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“In the history of the evolution of the family, you and the millions of other migrants like you represent an ongoing proliferation… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital… — Katherine Parkinson Copy Share Image
Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
She’s just a little faint,” I reassured Mrs. Hammond. “They’re blood typing in biology.” She nodded, understanding now. “There’s always one.” I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms;… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
You have an obligation as an organism living here to evolve and innovate and learn. Clothing, fitness - all part of the… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Today you meet more folks than your ancestors could imagine … some in passing. Some for a crucial instant. Others for tangled decades.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy… — Seth Shostak 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
“At birth we become elements to entity, upon death the entity reverts to elements. Make sure to make your trip mean something,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Nature is a deep imitator. And as man is the prince of organisms he is master of adaptations. He is the artist… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love.… — Amy Jenkins Copy Share Image
“But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
