Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Statistical physics or Newtonian physics gives way to quantum physics. Very unusual properties of matter emerge at that scale, and you can… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
“The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
“sociobiologists are not merely willing, but devoted, "Slaves of the Gene."" They believe that an organism-a man, say-is epiphenomenal to his genes:… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“(...) to think that worms and slugs are neurologically simple is another blunder of contemporary, scientifically uninformed philosophy. To take as an… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
“... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict… — William Beaumont Copy Share Image
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are part of… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are at a turning point of revolution species. Evolution has blindly felt its way forward , now, we, the product of… — Kathereine Copy Share Image
One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
I actually found contracting malaria in the Congo fascinating. Observing your body under attack from this microorganism and seeing how it responds… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
