Biology Quote by Carl Zimmer Download Open image ““Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves.”” — Carl Zimmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Evolution Science Self harm
“To harm nature is to harm yourself. To care for it is to care not just for yourself, but for the entire universe.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.” — Dan Riskin Copy Share Image
“evolution doesn’t have much interest in protecting us anymore because we’re less likely to have—or be able to bear—children.” — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
“First, you may cause no harm to any living creature. All living things have the sacred life force within them. You will come to… — Tom Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whatever humanity inflicts on itself, nature can always go one better.” — Justin Richards Copy Share Image
“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Harm is one of those things that I always mean to keep clear of, but somehow my intentions and me don't chime as they… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.” — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well. — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.” — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“[Writing to Lucretius, on Epicurus' belief that the soul was no different from the rest of the cosmos; made of atoms] "Death is therefore… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
