All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game… — David Buss Copy Share Image
“Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of ontogenesis.1 In other words, the development of the stem, or race, is, in accordance with the… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“A multitude of harlequin lifeforms bobbed and twirled and played in the depths of the Atlantic. Pink cucumbers with thorny backs. Algae.… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer.… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“The third way to change the laws of life is to engineer completely inorganic beings. The most obvious examples are computer programs… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must… — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet.… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“The supernatural presides over man's formation always. . . Life is that evidence of supernatural endowment which originally entered nature during the… — Pauline Hopkins Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The evolution has to take place still within us to know ourselves. We can say that unless and until it is put… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“If lack of self-regulation is the essential characteristic of organisms that are destructive, it is the presence of self-regulatory capacity that is… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
“A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything… — Bruce Lipton 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 study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So I guess maybe that’ll be the next step in evolution – to break clean like those first amphibians who crawled out… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Evolution is ultimately why cancer is so deadly. Take two biopsies from different sides of a tumor, and they can be genetically… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time.… — George Dyson Copy Share Image