“The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Although we fully understand the genetic code-i.e., how the information in a single gene is used to build a protein-we comprehend virtually… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Interested in the origin of mammals? Go to rocks from the period called the Early Mesozoic; geochemistry tells us that these rocks… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“The discovery of an interaction among the four hemes made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally… — Frank Sulloway Copy Share Image
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“do the chromosomes behave in ontogenesis?3 The growth of an organism is effected by consecutive cell divisions. Such a cell division is… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The strands of the DNA double helix are held together by hydrogen bonding interactions between the complementary base pairs. Heating DNA in… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam... I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“I described living cells as being crammed full of protein molecules. Acting individually or in small assemblies, they perform reiterated molecular processes… — Dennis Bray Copy Share Image
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words,… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of… — John Jeremiah Bigsby Copy Share Image
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“About 4,400 years ago 8 people stepped off Noah’s ark. According to the United Nations Population Growth Statistics, the world’s population grows… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
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