Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes. — Torbern Bergman Copy Share Image
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.” — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving,… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we… — Frances Arnold 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
My personal style is a continued evolution. I can see I've had a different style for every different age in the period… — Alessandra Mastronardi Copy Share Image
No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience.… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I have the best of both worlds. I have all the accolades that come with something like that video, but I don't… — Judson Laipply Copy Share Image
Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative… — William James Copy Share Image
“My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
