“Engels’s view of evolution was Lamarckian, rather than strictly Darwinian, in that he believed that characteristics acquired by individuals could be inherited… — Terrell Carver Copy Share Image
What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“From year to year, and from age to age, we see [biologists] at work, adding no doubt much to the unknown, and… — Robert Chambers Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems,… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Us, we are but a step on the ladder of evolution, specimens that inherit, learn, create and develop their inner and outer… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“The irony, and inherent tension, of evolutionary biology is that this search for rational coherence - for "consilience," as Wilson likes to… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
Even as a kid enthralled with science fiction, I wondered about the role of people in the long-term evolution of the Earth,… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Everything comes from experience; yet not from actual experience, reiterated by each individual with each generation, but instead from experience accumulated by… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain… — Buket Uzuner Copy Share Image
Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
“Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“Cancer is often associated with death but is also very much about life. It is about the basic principles of biology, the… — Jarle Breivik Copy Share Image
It's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very… — Michael Levitt Copy Share Image
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image