“Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is… — Anna Dello Russo Copy Share Image
A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Nothing like this archetype has existed before because… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils.… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Pain by itself is merely pain, but the experience of pain couples with an understanding that the pain serves a worthy purpose… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“The proteins create a gradient within the egg. Like sugar diffusing out of a cube in a cup of coffee, they are… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“As an anology, consider the word structure. In bacteria, the gene is embedded in the genome in precisely that format, structure, with… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
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Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Evolution is evolution - and it's happened before us and will continue after we're gone. But, what's taking place now is much… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
“But because humans are intensely social animals, they also faced a recurring set of crucial social evolutionary challenges. These evolutionary challenges include… — Vladas Griskevicius Copy Share Image
“let’s instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. What’s replicated isn’t matter (made… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
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Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
“The irony, and inherent tension, of evolutionary biology is that this search for rational coherence - for "consilience," as Wilson likes to… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Life is unlikely to end with humans, even if we burn in a nuclear holocaust. The relentless wheel of evolution will pick… — Roy J. Mathew Copy Share Image
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