For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
What I want to do is demonstrate that biology can learn how to make a vast array of molecules that people thought… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“All I am saying, is there is evidence, biological and genetic, that the existence of mermaids is possible, if not probable. Over… — Robert Woolcott Copy Share Image
This is a natural evolution, building a complete bath ensemble program and the Joseph Abboud bath brand within the Creative Bath family… — Bob Weiss Copy Share Image
The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson Copy Share Image
“Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“It is pure fatalism, undiluted by environmental variability. Good living, good medicine, healthy food, loving families or great riches can do nothing… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency… — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The evolution has to take place still within us to know ourselves. We can say that unless and until it is put… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As a known entity, DNA has been around longer than you might think. It was discovered as far back as 1869 by… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image