“It is the form of hemoglobin, then, that permits its function. The physical structure of the molecule enables its chemical nature, the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“Some scientists thrive on the conceptual; their minds can envision particles that the most powerful microscopes can’t show us; processes that can’t… — William M. Bass Copy Share Image
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
“Indeed, nothing less than the understanding of God’s earth was in flux. For centuries, the church had censored scientific ideas that were… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Metabolically active cells, such as those of the liver, kidneys, muscles, and brain, have hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, making up some… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
“I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Common sense says that the amazing complexity of life cannot arise out of a random process. The neo-Darwinians use clever arguments to… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image