“Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental than differences. Less fundamental, but no less… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of… — Raymond Dart Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place,… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will… — Alfred M. Rehwinkel Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
Evolution is too important not to be the root, the trunk and the canopy of popular culture. And too significant not to… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
“Sounds good, Roberta admitted, joining in a round of polite applause. Her initial gut response to this whole gene-tampering business had been… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“You might say I’ve become an unwilling expert on the Krebs Cycle. It’s vital to my existence. Life and death, really. That… — Jacob Whaler Copy Share Image
“Change blows through the branches of our existence. It fortifies the roots on which we stand, infuses crimson experience with autumn hues,… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
“My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization… — Leonard Darwin Copy Share Image
Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“What [Peirce] meant was that since nature evolves by chance variation, then the laws of nature must evolve by chance variation as… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“If then this tendency toward collectivization is a mutation there is no reason to suppose it is for the better. It is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“One of the four genes used by Yamanaka to reverse cellular fate is called c-myc. Myc, the rejuvenating factor, is no ordinary… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Sex according to Sangarakshita is rooted in the Lower Evolution and does not, in his experience, enhance communication between individuals. And sexual… — Sangharakshita Copy Share Image
“This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A mutation that reverses the effect of a previous one (called a back mutation) could at one stroke revive a complex function… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive… — Natalie Copy Share Image
As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“I mean to say, we all sprang from humble origins. Goodness gracious, who would have thought that a species of monkey would… — R. Chetwynd-Hayes Copy Share Image
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