Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine accepted a date of about 5000 B.C. for the Creation of the universe according to the book of Genesis. (It… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Yes, genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function,… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
“An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“Another possibility is that the sweat glands were the driving force behind the rise of EDAR-V370A. East Asians are usually assumed to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“It is certain that such a revolution in thought - that is, such an expansion of consciousness, such an evolution of intelligence… — Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too,… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Obviously, we went after Trump quite a bit, but I also feel like, we can't be on anyone's side, really. We need… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are… — Ronald A. Fisher Copy Share Image
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for… — Eva Jablonka Copy Share Image
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“Working independently, Baltimore and Temin discovered an enzyme found in retroviruses that could build DNA from an RNA template. They called the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
![“An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like the pitch that it does on the mainland. Species are only as tough as they need to be, life is much quieter and more settled [..] So you can imagine what happens when a…” quote by Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2a0/douglas-adams-122_evolution_an-island-on-the-other-hand-is-small-the_2521756.png)
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![“[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/569/werner-herzog-964_courses_tim-white-always-spoke-about-his-work-in_303632.jpg)
