Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
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My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
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Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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“Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
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“Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of… — Hannah Landecker Copy Share Image
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“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile… — Scott F. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The question of surrender is political, it is not a question of love. And relationship is not love at all; it means… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
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In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
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