The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Genes are not destiny. They may define some of your physical features and give you a tiny head start on some things,… — Jamie Le Fay Copy Share Image
“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“It is a testament to the unsettling beauty of the genome that it can make the real world “stick.” Our genes do… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“The teaching conundrum had been solved. Teaching evolves where the costs are outweighed by the inclusive fitness benefits that result from the… — Kevin N Laland Copy Share Image
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.” — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the… — Trevor Moore Copy Share Image
“The second irony of evolutionary biology is that this transubstantiation of natural theology into the grand narrative of natural selection has itself… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
“Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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
“You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ...… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
