“Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation is despair:… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“An interesting point: A cell in your brain and a cell in your kidney contain the exact same DNA. And while in… — Caroline Leaf Copy Share Image
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“we are not just talking about hydrogen and oxygen combining into water; we are talking about carbon, hydrogen, and other elements combining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
“It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We started to have more women and little girls in our audience, where it started to be 40 percent female that sat… — Nikki Bella Copy Share Image
New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It’s not their field. It’s like asking Stephen Hawking if… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition.… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The earth is old. Millions of years old, Adam & Eve is lest than 6000 years old and archaeologist is unearthing civilization… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, they adopted an upright stance.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“reacts to us in a way that reinforces our genetic predisposition. Again, it would be an oversimplification to say that our environment… — Chris Masi Copy Share Image
There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton Copy Share Image
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism,… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
“Gregor Mendel’s years of research with green and yellow peas showed that such a thing must exist. Colors and other traits vary… — James Gleick Copy Share Image