Biosphere Quote by Stuart A. Kauffman Download Open image ““Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.”” — Stuart A. Kauffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billion Years Biosphere Biosphere Constructs Constructs Evolves Evolution Evolves Persisted
“Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The permanent establishment of terrestrial life in space is as profound an event as the emergence of life itself.” — Phil Smith Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we… — Joseph Guth Copy Share Image
“The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Over the course of twenty years, however, science has evolved in breathtaking fashion.” — Helen Morrison Copy Share Image
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth. Species adjust or go extinct,… — Daniel Botkin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps life will spread throughout our cosmos and flourish for billions or trillions of years—and perhaps this will be because of decisions that we… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.” — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
“Living Planet, and spent another three years exploring the Earth’s environments and the way way plants and animals adapt to their surroundings.” — Gareth Huw Davies Copy Share Image
History enters when the space of the possible is vastly larger than the space of the actual — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“And to come back to the economy for a moment, the lifetime distribution of firms is also a power law. Now” — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Thus we can accept the wonderful results of the neuroscientists, accept that the mind, via neural behavior, is classically causal, and refuse the conclusion… — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we… — Joseph Guth Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water,… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image