“A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our dietary problems arise from a mismatch between the tastes evolved for Stone Age conditions and their likely effects today. Fat, sugar,… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution,… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
“When true happiness shows up, the ego is bored with it: It's too plain, too ordinary, and it doesn't leave us feeling… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
“Miller believes, like many theists, that religion brings us beyond the bounds of materialism. (Ironically he insists on a material explanation [evolution]… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Any of the components of an organism-say, a haemoglobin molecule-can be given an arbitrarily complete and precise description in the language of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“A genetic fundamentalism permeates public awareness these days. It may be summed up as the belief that almost every illness and every… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But full sequencing? No. Very hard to interpret. At some point probably we'll all have that opportunity but most of what's there… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Genes were no longer mysterious embodiments of specificity, they were information – a code – that could be transmitted (another word from… — Matthew Cobb Copy Share Image
“When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and… — Michael Crimmins Copy Share Image
There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“The helix contains two intertwined strands of DNA. It is "right-handed"-twisting upward as if driven by a right-handed screw. Across the molecule,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Genes can be activated or turned off by factors in the environment. In the Cree population of northwestern Ontario, for example, diabetes… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines -… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward… 'Think what it must have been… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered… — L. Harrison Matthews Copy Share Image
...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“We must work hard at overcoming the natural tendency to see causal connections and other patterns where there are none by examining… — Robert Carroll Copy Share Image
“other words, while the behaviour patterns of archaic humans remained fixed for tens of thousands of years, Sapiens could transform their social… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
![“Miller believes, like many theists, that religion brings us beyond the bounds of materialism. (Ironically he insists on a material explanation [evolution] for our existence.) However, he fails to explain how religion does this. Will religion enable us to overcome Heisenberg's Uncertainty…” quote by G.M. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e52/g-m-jackson-38985_adultery_miller-believes-like-many-theists-that-r_3161205.jpg)
![“The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or…” quote by Francis Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c43/francis-collins-5281_chasms_the-problem-with-genetic-research-is-we_1902398.jpg)
![“There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13d/stephen-jay-gould-885_action_there-is-no-gene-for-such-unambiguous-bi_511416.jpg)
![“My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward… 'Think what it must have been like for Darwin, two hundred years ago. He took that voyage on the Beagle [1831] expecting to document the natural world and he stumbled across something impossible. A creature…” quote by Jennifer Lynn Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/49c/jennifer-lynn-barnes-2448_different-person_my-dad-was-a-different-person-when-he-le_1140378.jpg)
![“The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do…” quote by L. Harrison Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/956/l-harrison-matthews-92077_action_the-peppered-moth-experiments-show-the-e_2525577.jpg)
