Biology Quote by Kevin Kelly Download Open image “Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.” — Kevin Kelly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Design Made Organisms Too far
The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later. — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a forgetful one.… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long- lived, happy,… — Daniel E. Lieberman Copy Share Image
This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“We have no certainty we’ll contact extraterrestrial beings from one of the billion earthlike planets in the sky in the next 200 years, but… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can’t do at… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image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