Biology Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“Once we comprehend the evolutionary function of deception, we stand better equipped to understand why it happens, when it is likely to happen, and…

— Ptera Hunter

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

— Luc de Clapiers

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive…

— Harriet Lerner

“Do not look for a secret passage in nature because nature is already the secret passage itself!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.”

— Hayley Solich

If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for…

— Robert Trivers

“I was convinced the answer to life's enigmas must lie in connecting our emotional yearnings to nature.”

— Liza Dalby

“If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he…

— Dean H. Kenyon