To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man — Luke Johnson Copy Share Image
I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution.… — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation -… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. — James R Newman Copy Share Image
I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism.… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades,… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting… — Marc Koska Copy Share Image
I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism, — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“...all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
