When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on… — Benjamin Van Roy Copy Share Image
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are some things that are in you because of your DNA and some things that are a product of your environment… — Rochelle Humes Copy Share Image
We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
“Sounds good, Roberta admitted, joining in a round of polite applause. Her initial gut response to this whole gene-tampering business had been… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
“Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as… — Judith Haye Copy Share Image
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I did because it… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
“Think about it... The Republicans have gone from Abraham Lincoln to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump. No wonder they don't believe in… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct. — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Gigabit LTE will be an important technology evolution because that puts demands on the rest of the network to basically be -… — Borje Ekholm Copy Share Image
“One has to understand the dynamics of the species and habitat in question, and most armchair ethicists haven’t the faintest clue.” — John Durant Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image