“Without denying that adaptation may be one of God's methods of operation, it may be definitely said, that an intelligent Master of… — John A. Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“So now you should be able to see what happened when the theory of evolution came along. The Gospel had been wide… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“A gene," Beadle wrote in 1945, "can be visualized as directing the final configuration of a protein molecule." This was the "action… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“The macromolecules of organic life embody information in an intricate structure. A single hemoglobin molecule comprises four chains of polypeptides, two with… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose.… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“we, with our propensity for murder, torture, slavery, rape, cannibalism, pillage, advertising jingles, shag carpets, and golf, how could we be seriously… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Another object lesson of why humans should have stayed in trees, where they could not behave in such an idiotic way. Or… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, estimate, and… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
“Neo-Darwinians do cite some examples of evolution they claim the NDT explains. Natural selection can indeed account for the replacement of light-colored… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, was to simulate the conditions on Earth in primordial times, three or four billion years ago, when… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“It has been pointed out by Boltzmann that the fundamental object of contention in the life-struggle, in the evolution of the organic… — Nick Gogerty Copy Share Image
I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally the new immunology was… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a good example of that modern intelligence which, if it destroys anything, destroys itself. Evolution is either an innocent scientific… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
