Quote by Carl Sagan

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills…

— Richard Dawkins

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

— Rodney Brooks

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as…

— Freeman Dyson

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“My organism is a link in the immense chain of cosmic cause and effect, and I can only perceive its real sense by considering…

— Anonymous

“Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews, you desiccated…

— Richard Dawkins

“From an evolutionary perspective, the closest thing we have to a human essence is our DNA, and the DNA molecule is the vehicle of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“only thing your DNA thinks about is reproducing itself.”

— Dave Barry

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

— George Monbiot

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

— Jessica Green

Using biology to pursue our best opportunities and solve our greatest challenges opens up an entirely untapped world of solution sets for humanity -…

— Bryan Johnson

We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and…

— Frances Arnold