Science Quotes

"The tree of life is rooted in bacteria, which gave rise to all other forms of life."

"The study of extremophiles has taught us that life can exist in conditions once thought impossible."

"Molecular evidence shows that evolution is a fact as well as a theory."

"To sequence a genome is to read the history of an organism written in DNA."

"The origin of the major groups of organisms is written in DNA sequences."

"Molecular biology has unified biology in a way that morphology never could."

"The ribosome is a remnant of an RNA world that existed before DNA and proteins."

"Life is not the exception to the rules of chemistry and physics; it is a consequence of them."

"Molecular evolution is the key to understanding all of evolution."

"Life is the most complex phenomenon that follows from the simplest principles."

"Life did not arise on Earth; it arose from Earth, from the elements, from chemistry itself."

"Life is a process of organization imposed on matter by information."

"Molecular biology has shown us that life operates according to principles as universal as the laws of physics."

"Evolution is both fact and mechanism; it is what life does and how it does it."

"Life is not the result of chance alone but of chance acting on the structure of chemistry and physics."

"The study of molecular life forms the foundation of modern biology and medicine."

"Science without a sense of wonder is merely information gathering."

"We need scientists who can think like poets and poets who can think like scientists."

"Science is a conversation between humanity and nature."

"The greatest scientific revolutions happen when we stop being dogmatic."

"The Earth regulates itself through feedback mechanisms we are only beginning to understand."

"Science must be humble enough to admit that life is more mysterious than our models."

"The Earth is a superorganism, and we are its nerve cells."

"The most important science is the science of living well with the Earth."

"The nervous system knows nothing of the world except through the body."

"Consciousness arises from the autopoietic organization of living systems."

"The nervous system constitutes reality through its operations."

"The structure of the observer determines what can be observed."

"The nervous system is closed to information but open to structural coupling."

"The observer and observed form an inseparable unity."