No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“These days, there are few researchers,if any,who are really thinking about extracellular genetics.Sooner or later, nobody will be able to talk about… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
“Even if the left-bank population reaches the same size as the right-bank population, their genes on the left bank will have a… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution is slow and gradual, step by step. Such an evolution can explain micro-evolution but not macro-evolution. For example, how did… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
“Although all the characteristics of living things are dependent on both genetic and environmental factors, the differences between two individuals in their… — John Alcock Copy Share Image
“The bradys must hold that, on the average, cumulative selection has to add a little information to the genome at each step.… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
“If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Dawkins asserts that final causes and design don't really exist. Unguided evolution explains it all. Francis Crick thought the same thing but… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
“The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Environment does not cause ADD any more than genes cause ADD. What happens is that if certain genetic material meets a certain… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most… — Sarah Miles Copy Share Image
“Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . .… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition.… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is… — Ronan O'Rahilly Copy Share Image
“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is fiercely inventive. It squeezes complexity out of simplicity. It orchestrates the activation or repression of certain genes in only certain… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The extracellular genesis of cells in animals seemed to me, ever since the publication of the cell theory [of Schwann], just as… — Robert Remak Copy Share Image
An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a… — Leon Croizat Copy Share Image
“Yet, unlike the causal specificity that obtains for microevolutionary processes, origin-of-life researchers have yet to specify the chemical pathways that supposedly originated… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image