A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
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“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
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“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
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In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual…Physically and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“(7) Evolution contradicts the scientific law that no effect can be greater than its cause, since it assumes that intelligence was developed… — Henry M. Morris III Copy Share Image
“Monod proposed an analogy: Just as the biosphere stands above the world of nonliving matter, so an “abstract kingdom” rises above the… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
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What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
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We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
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