As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“We will not find the enemy.8 Because the enemy does not exist in space, but in time: four thousand years ago. We… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Genes are merely codes. They act as a set of rules and as a biological template for the synthesis of the proteins… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face—that young man was not really a poet; but surely he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion… — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so… — Paul W. Ewald Copy Share Image
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“We are biological beings, shaped by genetic inheritance and the organization and health of our neurological structures. We have rich inner lives… — David N Entwistle Copy Share Image
A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“Living organisms were not independently created, but have descended and diversified over time from common ancestors. And thus, no other biological theory… — Tommy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“That all plants immediately and substantially stem from the element water alone I have learnt from the following experiment. I took an… — Jan Baptist van Helmont Copy Share Image
Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“His understanding of the method by which organisms become first individualised and then personalised gave him a number of valuable insights. Basically,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Richard Dawkins and his followers have recycled the theory of evolution not as a biological theory but as a theory of everything… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Tshepo reckons that it is inevitable that one’s circle of friends will become smaller as one grows older. He reasons that when… — Kopano Matlwa Copy Share Image
Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“We shall have to stop thinking of technology as something invulnerable that is merely used by humans, and view it as part… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“This concept, that all progress is relative, has come to be known in biology by the name of the Red Queen, after… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
