In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend"… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, 'Queen,' in 1971 while I was studying… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The precious … uniqueness which the human individual claims is conferred on him not by possession of an immortal soul but by possession of… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Science is leading us forward in our evolution in the area of spiritual consciousness, in a sense. They're leading us to a… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
“Curiosity, that is, the separate drive to explore the world disinterestedly, without being stimulated by danger or physiological dissatisfaction, is, according to… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
“Researchers developed ways to extract genes from one species and insert them into the genetic code of another—a technique that can, among… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“In the movie The Matrix, Agent Smith (an AI) articulates this sentiment: “Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“ARE WE REALLY JUST ANIMALS? Of all the questions a skeptical person might ask about Darwin, I’ve come to believe that this… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Did you know? There are three major milestones in human evolution. One, the discovery of fire; two, the invention of the wheel;… — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, when using it, you have to take into account the… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Using biology to pursue our best opportunities and solve our greatest challenges opens up an entirely untapped world of solution sets for… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these… — Alexander Tsiaras Copy Share Image
The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections.… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or… — James Black Copy Share Image
In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA,… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands evolution knows that it doesn't necessarily lead from simpler to more complex life-forms. Rather, it leads to life-forms better… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image