Theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen
That where now there are two cases once there were 159, the rest having been destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1944.
We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others.
The distinction between artefact and organism dissolved in a Petri dish.
Shaggy coat, and its stance made
Me doubt that my interest was shared.
In 2010 JCVI-syn1.0, the world’s first artificial cellular life form, fired its molecular motors.
From this point of view, a male cuttlefish who copulates with a dead female is not only wasting his time but making a serious philosophical mistake.
Elected officials deposed each other by lawsuits.
Aristotle says that ‘nature makes instruments to fit the function, not the function to fit the instrument’.
I will not allow the Athenians to commit a second crime against philosophy.
A man could find himself in court on trivial or trumped-up charges, his fortune, home or life forfeit.
I was curious to know whether it still had its testicles,
I should have had to look under its
No one cranks the clockwork, no one points the little machine in the right direction – nature does.
Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all.
When, therefore, we ask what ageing is for we must give the peculiar answer that it isn’t for anything; it is, instead, the evolved consequence of there being no reason to stay alive.
The ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point.