Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing,… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
“Dawkins claims that the living world came to be by way of unguided evolution: “the Evidence of Evolution,” he says, “Reveals a… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
“Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups.… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
“This is direct evidence of evolution. We share so much with our placental mammalian cousins because we all had a common ancestor… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Reactions. That’s what Major Tom said. Science is all about reactions. Chemistry is about reactions – potassium in water. Physics is about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“we were all victims of an obsolete educational system built on the belief that the best way to prepare us for the… — Lucy Mihajlich Copy Share Image
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
“Through our failure to acknowledge our oneness with the total of other population s of biological organisms...we reveal the egocentricity which has… — John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The tightness of genetic linkage, in short, was a surrogate for the physical proximity of genes on chromosomes: by measuring how often… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“At the same time, Bezos became enamored with a book called Creation, by Steve Grand, the developer of a 1990s video game… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved… The precise… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“biology is usually called upon to justify a society based on selfish principles, but we should never forget that it has also… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The story of Noah is self-contradictory, uncorroborated by independent historical evidence, and is generally at odds with everything we know about our… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
“(I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
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