Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or… — Andrew H. Knoll Copy Share Image
Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple,… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents,… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical… — Peter Cheeke Copy Share Image
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing.… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery Copy Share Image
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image