“The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My shoe has been going through evolution, and we having great feedback from the 1 to the 2 and the 2.5's, so… — Paul George Copy Share Image
I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“A tissue is evidently an enduring thing. It's functional and structural conditions become modified from moment to moment. Time is really the… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“In other instances, some of these animals may have made it to a particular area and become extinct for various reasons —… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
“During the decades after Darwin published, field geologists and paleontologists have gone on to uncover and discover thousands and thousands of fossils.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Genes have plenty to do with behavior. Even more appropriately, all behavioral traits are affected to some degree by genetic variability.65 They… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Tim Minchin's musings on Tony, the first 'fish' ever to have feet: Imagine what Tony would think, standing there on his brand… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“As to the Divine Design, is it not an instance of incomprehensibly and infinitely marvellous Wisdom and Design to have given certain… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
No, My son, the evolutionists are not right. I created all of this-all of this-in the blink of an eye; in one… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“Epigenetics reveals that your body isn’t a genetically predetermined flesh robot, but is regulated by a set of gene switches that can… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause… — Scott A. Minnich Copy Share Image
“Yes. The scientific discussion goes something like this: Communication of living systems is done by molecular recognition. This central principle of the… — Michael Anderle Copy Share Image
“What it reminded me of was a biological dead end. A genetic retrogression. A freak accident of nature that stranded some organism… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are… — John Jacob Abel Copy Share Image
These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Reflecting back on the journey to the “Great Outdoors” places me in a different tonal mood, filled up with hope and passion,… — Irucka Ajani Embry Copy Share Image
If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image