“Central to Piaget's framework - and often ignored even by those who count themselves as Piagetian - is this activity, equilibration. Whether… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when… — Diarmaid MacCulloch Copy Share Image
Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
“It is conceivable that an interplay of genes and epigenes coordinates human embryogenesis. Let us return, yet again, to Morgan's problem: the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I recently asked more than seventy eminent researchers if they would have done I their work differently if they had thought Darwin's… — Philip S. Skell Copy Share Image
“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery Copy Share Image
Life is all about creating a balance. Moderation is the name of the game. We are what we eat, breathe and think.… — Dr Neil Pande Kathmandu Nepal Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are… — Ronald A. Fisher Copy Share Image
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“Thus by an unprejudiced observation of the animal kingdom, we reach the conclusion that wherever society exists at all, this principle may… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Life may be chemistry, but it's a special circumstance of chemistry. Organisms exist not because of reactions that are possible, but because… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans.… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“E www ... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests,… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“If man is but a biological organism and biology itself may be reduced to a set of physical and chemical laws, it… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her feet crossed… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
