Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An… — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
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“The universal laws of nature including the thermodynamic principles of entropy govern the relationships between interconnected organisms. The notion of internal thermodynamic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
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We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
My whole interest is, how do you use evolution as an innovation engine? How does evolution solve new problems that life faces?… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
“Who can live the same moment twice? In comparison with an organism, inorganic matter appears to be constant and changeless; but, in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I teach biology, it's kind of a difficult science and time is limited. As far as I'm concerned, it's all about the… — Danny Lloyd Copy Share Image
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
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Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“THE evidence for evolution grows by the day, and has never been stronger. At the same time, paradoxically, ill-informed opposition is also… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy,… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
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The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
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Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms,… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
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If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as… — Judith Haye Copy Share Image
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