The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the… — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Nature is not infallible. Nature makes mistakes. That's what evolution is all about: growth by trail and error. Nature can be stupid… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman,… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
“Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“British astronomer Fred Hoyle said something to this effect: That believing in Darwin's theoretical mechanisms of evolution was like believing that a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem.… — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull…… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to… — Theodor Schwann Copy Share Image
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
With enough of us connecting heart with heart, center with center, innovation with innovation, prayer with prayer, through the internet and the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The fact that you came from a very beautiful worm demonstrate that, evolution is more romantic than scientific. Thus, it arouses the… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Why does evolution matter? There is so much about the evolution of life, the development of life on Earth that should rivet… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“Life is undoubtedly born of biology, but if a lifeform strictly constructs all its perception living inside the ship-shape well of biology,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image