In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's… — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that… — Wilhelm Johannsen Copy Share Image
“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided… — Maarten Boudry Copy Share Image
The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The Pleiadians are very much part of our evolution right now, and I think one of the most common questions people ask,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing… — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
“A tiger's DNA is also a 'duplicate me' program but it contains an almost fantastically large digression as an essential part of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
I believe that From Software has to create new things. There will be new types of games coming from us, and 'Dark… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“Following our dreams and giving authority to the imaginal being within us to steward our lives may be just the action required… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“According to the fossil record, Neanderthals appeared between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and existed until about 30,000 years ago. Throughout their… — Svante Pääbo Copy Share Image
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Epigenetics, Waddington wrote, concerns "the interaction of genes with their environment (...) that brings their phenotype into being.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution's flight plan. — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long-… — Daniel E. Lieberman Copy Share Image
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It was a Rube Goldberg disease. A change in the sequence of a gene caused the change in the sequence of a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Wherever people are in their evolution, they start to come into that hope and feeling like they are okay, that they're going… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image