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
“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
“Some thirty miles east of the statue, with much less fanfare, another monument was nearing completion. At Cold Spring Harbor on Long… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an… — Lynn Margulis 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
“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
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
What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Our responsibility, as individual cells of a living organism, is to perform our individual functions as well as possible. Our orders come… — Paul S. Williams Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s Allan Wilson and Mary-Claire King at Berkeley correctly theorized that the evolution of genes is less important than the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The human condition is plagued with a labyrinth of shortcomings, frailties and limitations that hinder man from reaching his fullest potential. Therefore,… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Naive Darwinists, including many capitalists, have self-servingly argued that oppression of the weak and the poor is a justified application of natural… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Monod proposed an analogy: Just as the biosphere stands above the world of nonliving matter, so an “abstract kingdom” rises above the… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As evolutionary neurobiologists Leah Krubitzer and Jon Kaas put it, Although the phenotype generated is context-dependent, the ability to respond to the… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
“Nature is not infallible. Nature makes mistakes. That's what evolution is all about: growth by trail and error. Nature can be stupid… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The double-helix has solved all three of the major challenges of genetic physiology using ingenious variations on the same theme. Mirror-image chemicals… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
![“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and you will see it referred in the Biometrika memoir. The Mendelian formula leads up to the 'ancestral law'. What we fought against was the slovenliness in applying Mendel 's…” quote by Karl Pearson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0cc/karl-pearson-25336_biology_there-is-nothing-opposed-in-biometry-and_1929238.jpg)
![“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I…” quote by Lynn Margulis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b9/lynn-margulis-17073_biology_natural-selection-eliminates-and-maybe-m_397958.png)
![“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the nature and content of genetic information that has propelled biology for the last hundred years. The scientific progress made [since that time] falls naturally into…” quote by Siddharta Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/82e/siddharta-mukherjee-40937_biology_the-rediscovery-of-mendel-s-laws-of-here_989954.jpg)
![“Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/488/stephen-jay-gould-885_biology_each-worldview-was-a-cultural-product-bu_305934.png)
