While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather. Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Each ribosome had more than fifty different components. If you broke down a slew of them into their separate parts and thoroughly… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case,… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
In terms of evolution, I think that for me, it's all about titles. That's what you become world-renowned for, what you've won,… — Kylian Mbappe Copy Share Image
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image