That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The length of all DNA in your body's cells is 74 billion kilometers (or 193,000 times the distance from the earth to the moon).” — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often,… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place… — David Hillis Copy Share Image
“It was said that similar tribes lived farther to the west of Pariha. One of their biggest and most ancient settlements was… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“ancestor. In fact, this clock tells us that all seven billion people alive today can trace their maternal lineage to one woman… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
“For an enzyme to be functional, it must fold into a precise three-dimensional shape. How such a complex folding can take place… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“I have blogged previously about the dangerous and deadly effects of science denialism, from the innocent babies unnecessarily exposed to deadly diseases… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“BioLogos claims there is no conflict between the theory of evolution and creationism. Huh? Here is where the creationists seem to have… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis,"… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it.… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. They were… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“Mitochondria are strange organelles in the sense that they have their own DNA and ribosomes.Therefore, mitochondria are able to make some of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters. — Severo Ochoa Copy Share Image
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile,… — William Sims Copy Share Image
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate to be given the opportunities I've been given, and it's been awesome. You know I'm really looking forward… — Alexa Bliss Copy Share Image
You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. — Carl Joachim Friedrich Copy Share Image
Really, my evolution of being comfortable in my own skin as a pro helped transform what I'm wearing, and understanding what I… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
