During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.' She looked up from her book. 'I would hope, though,' she went… — David Almond Copy Share Image
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“in Solution Most chemical reactions that occur on the earth’s surface, whether in living organisms or among inorganic substances, take place in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with… — Ed Kashi Copy Share Image
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Neither a light nor a dark lesson is more justified than the other, neither is more powerful, both equal in their opportunity… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
“Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human. — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Unable to construct genuine nanoassemblers, Xymos was using bacteria to crank out their molecules. This was genetic engineering, not nanotechnology.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system:… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As I said earlier it is most surprising that the kingdom of then world should have come under the sway of a… — R. Chetwynd-Hayes Copy Share Image
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist?… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If I'm talking about like the evolution of 'Hot Ones,' when we first started it was not a big hit at all.… — Sean Evans Copy Share Image
“Thanks to subsequent years of conversations with evolutionists, especially Williams, and with medical school residents and faculty, he has found that an… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“The biblical accounts of man's creation have not been discredited at all, but simply rejected! Evolution has not been proved, but simply… — Dr. Henry Morris Copy Share Image
Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image