The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Evolution works only on how memory influences fitness, not for how accurately memory reflects the past per se.” — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano Copy Share Image
I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game. — Patrick Vieira Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life… Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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
I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I… — Darrel R. Falk Copy Share Image
What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“In 1977, when Fred Sanger had sequenced the genome of the phiX virus, with 5,386 bases of DNA, that number represented the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas 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
Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That’s why the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls,” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre. — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“evolution only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.” — Martin Faulks Copy Share Image
Change is at the very core of evolution and without it, all creatures would look alike and behave the same way. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone. — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace. — Duane Allman Copy Share Image