“Cell division allows us as organisms to grow, to adapt, to recover, to repair—to live. And distorted and unleashed, it allows cancer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that… — Anohni Copy Share Image
Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts,… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The double-helix has solved all three of the major challenges of genetic physiology using ingenious variations on the same theme. Mirror-image chemicals… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“This was not an academic matter. Biology, as George Wald had said, was a unique science because it could not define its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Diamond writes, can be summarized in a single sentence: “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments,… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
“It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“Evolution and the resulting environmental changes are the practice and invention of Mother Nature known as "conservation" - not the practice of… — Anthony P. Mauro, Sr Copy Share Image
“One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. An apple tree growing from an apple seed… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn.… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Whether plain or gorgeous, we've learned to appreciate [secure-type people] for what they really are -- the "supermates" of evolution -- and… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic… — Natalia Rose Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite,… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image