Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
“It is the impulse of science to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, because silicon packs on more protons than carbon, it's bulkier, like carbon with fifty extra pounds. Sometimes that's not a big… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather. Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes… — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific… — David Barton Copy Share Image
“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image