Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very… — Christina Koch Copy Share Image
I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and… — William James Copy Share Image
Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“This little book has been written in the hope that it may appeal to several classes of readers. Not infrequently I have… — Reginald Crundall Punnett Copy Share Image
When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“As evolutionary neurobiologists Leah Krubitzer and Jon Kaas put it, Although the phenotype generated is context-dependent, the ability to respond to the… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers… — Susan Bordo Copy Share Image
“These systems,” said Armour, referring to human brains, “are the product of evolution, optimized by evolution for a world which no longer… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
“reacts to us in a way that reinforces our genetic predisposition. Again, it would be an oversimplification to say that our environment… — Chris Masi Copy Share Image
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The easiest intellectual analogue of pure Quality that people in our environment can understand is that ‘Quality is the response of an… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
“You sit in your chair and ignore it, Moldenke. You remain. Evolution continues, Moldenke remains. You remind me of pi, Moldenke --… — David Ohle Copy Share Image
I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
“In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
