“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
We have a creative drive, but not all creative experiments are successful. In nature, there are many lineages of organisms that you… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“His understanding of the method by which organisms become first individualised and then personalised gave him a number of valuable insights. Basically,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face—that young man was not really a poet; but surely he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion… — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so… — Paul W. Ewald Copy Share Image
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
“Evolution is all about turning "bugs" into "features", turning "noise" into "signal", and the fuzzy boundaries between these categories are not optional;… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Unlike any other organism in history, humans have a mind-body conflict: we have a body built for performance, but a brain that's… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
When you free women so they can choose to have or not to have, or to conceive - that's something that, for… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate… — Ernest Everett Just Copy Share Image
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
