“If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The platypus, as it turns out, derives its DNA from a menagerie of creatures. When its genome was fully decoded, it was… — B.C.CHASE Copy Share Image
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that… — Everett C. Olson Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of… — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
“When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Cats catch mice, small birds and the like, very well. Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Our immune system is evolving through trials of use in fighting illnesses and the bombardment of our modern world toxins and that… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
“We're a crowd, a swarm. We think in groups, travel in armies. Armies carry the gene for self-destruction. One bomb is never… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step,… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005,… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
“There is a time and place for electromagnetic shielding and I regard it as a last resort due to the long term… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“DNA directs the construction of strings of chemicals; those chemicals influence the configuration of the whole organism; that configuration influences how likely… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Anaximander (ca. 610 BC–ca. 546 BC), a friend and possibly a student of Thales, argued that since human infants are helpless at… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“As Rollin put it in his book The Frankenstein Syndrome, ‘It is simply false that all genetic engineering must harm animals. Unless… — Emily Anthes Copy Share Image
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Conscious Evolution "Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“While micro-evolution--change within species--has been observed in the laboratory, macro-evolution--change from one species to another has not, and never will be.” — Bob Beasley Copy Share Image
I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
