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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as…
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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural…
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In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite…
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The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must…
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A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its…
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
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Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by…
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...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan,…
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There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess,…
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is…
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears…
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... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form.…
— Louis Pasteur
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Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the…
— Jerry Sabloff
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not…
— Alfred Kinsey
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It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living…
— Metrodorus of Chios
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Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid…
— Federico Fellini
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come…
— Yves Klein
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A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
— Joseph Roth
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The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to…
— Marston Bates
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