In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future,… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke… — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to… — Theodor Schwann Copy Share Image
deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use… — William James Copy Share Image
The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days)… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people. — David Ayer Copy Share Image