Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
“Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive because at this very early stage there is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“I mean to say, we all sprang from humble origins. Goodness gracious, who would have thought that a species of monkey would… — R. Chetwynd-Hayes Copy Share Image
As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“The Baker group at the University of Washington has packaged computer-aided protein fold prediction as a game, Foldit, which has been a… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
“A mutation that reverses the effect of a previous one (called a back mutation) could at one stroke revive a complex function… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
“This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Have they identified the gene that makes people pretend they're happy and that their life isn't a sham to compensate for broken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.” — Self Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the discussion, Gulland was asked about the possibility that a DNA molecule might be a helix, held together by the presence… — Matthew Cobb Copy Share Image
Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
You are the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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