The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Obviously there have been some very poor uses of evolution in the 20th century. Social Darwinism for instance and we point out… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“If you think affordable DNA sequencers were a scare, or those cloning kits that made the rounds, imagine kids programming nanos in… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“They soon lost interest in Sofya. She was just one more prisoner -with no more idea of her destination than anyone else.… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“the evolution of the heart and compassion is what is missing technically. Humans have proceeded to technological advances before without heart balance,… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts Copy Share Image
What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers,… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Success is not in obtaining the thing. Because there's always another thing. And then you look back on it, and for me,… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“The paradise we seek is a parallel reality to our Dispirited Dream, waiting for us to see it and choose it. We… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The technique that only uses explosion or expansion forces is lethal and hostile to the nature. This kind of technique must miss… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“The researchers looked deeper into these observations, in hopes of gaining insight into the mechanisms underlying the high evolutionary rate and extraordinary… — Michael G Cordingley Copy Share Image
“aggressivity common in hunter-gatherer groups. The human fossil record shows that in the period prior to settlement, there had been a gradual… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“And the dizzying arsenal of our modern technology is a leap in innovation perhaps matched in the entire history of life only… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“if, for each t, we write u(t) for the function from to that takes x to u(x, t), then it describes how… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“Darwinians have always owed their readers a translation manual that would "cash" the teleological language which Darwinians avail themselves of without restraint… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had… — Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ Copy Share Image
“Over the past sixty years a rather impressive assembly of respectable taxonomists and evolutionary biologists have tried to unseat the biological species… — Stephen J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“Our knowledge of… molecular defects in cancer has come from a dedicated twenty years of the best molecular biology research. Yet this… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
