The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
“Some thirty miles east of the statue, with much less fanfare, another monument was nearing completion. At Cold Spring Harbor on Long… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins 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
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
“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
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
... 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
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
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
“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
“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
“long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution… — Nick Webb Copy Share Image
“My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — J.B.S. Haldane Copy Share Image
For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth;… — Mahesh Babu 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
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