We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.” — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The great evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane (1892-1964), on being asked by a cleric what biology could say about the Creator,… — David Beerling Copy Share Image
“... despite the profound advances in molecular biology oer the past half-century, we still do not understand what life is, how it… — Addy Pross Copy Share Image
Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of… — Ferdinand Cohn Copy Share Image
“Evolution wasn’t a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial. And the doctor knew those… — Evan C. Currie Copy Share Image
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“I had met a girl by chance that I might just as well not have met. A girl with red hair supposedly… — Tadeusz Konwicki Copy Share Image
“He reaches under the desk and takes out a book. It is thick, with a worn cover and frayed edges. On it… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“Unlike the traditionally accepted theories of evolution and natural selection, Black’s view stressed that mutations are not accidents; instead, they are the… — E.B. Hudspeth Copy Share Image
The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Young people in their twenties spend three-four years doing things that are behind the times. We're capturing such people in a classroom… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly. Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the… — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“a change in our food choices—a shift in what we eat each day—holds the timeless genetic secret not only to your health… — Deborah Kesten Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“Insects are major players in nature's recycling effort, and in nature a corpse is simply organic matter to be recycled. Left to… — M. Lee Goff Copy Share Image
That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.' She looked up from her book. 'I would hope, though,' she went… — David Almond Copy Share Image
