Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion. — Richard Mourdock Copy Share Image
The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand. — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“When you feel at peace with your troubles, they turn into lessons and ladders to help you climb to the next level… — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Evolution presupposes an innate tendency toward progress and increasing order and complexity in the universe, but the second law of thermodynamics proves… — Dr. Henry Morris Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not… — Herbert Spencer Jennings Copy Share Image
“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is… — Richard Smalley Copy Share Image
“To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century.… — Michael R. Rose Copy Share Image
“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“What is much less clear is the role of embryological mechanisms in evolution, and how they might contribute to species diversity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
People don't change so much as they evolve, and this evolution tends to be towards what, deep within, they were all along. — TJay Taylor Copy Share Image
“At birth we become elements to entity, upon death the entity reverts to elements.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species. — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics? — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity, — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. — John Tooby Copy Share Image
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. — G. Ledyard Stebbins Copy Share Image
“Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can’t teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying… — Gregory Cochran Copy Share Image
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