It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways,… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
“Since the landmark 1972 paper by Gould and Eldredge, many studies have been done both with real populations and with mathematical simulations.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“The point is that the science is accurate in describing how the universe works, independent of the metaphysical implications one derives from… — Scientific American Editors Copy Share Image
Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“Those who hold to the Christian faith see law as an ultimate order of the universe. It is the invariable factor in… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“Now consider a genome consisting of genes A and B, meaning three different transcription profiles—A is transcribed, B is transcribed, A and… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“If I promised you a new car, would you say, “If it’s new, it probably won’t have an engine, a transmission, doors,… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Consider this!” Edmond declared. “It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The brain homology hypothesis entails losses across the board, with more than 75 percent of existing animal phyla having quite literally lost… — Russell Powell Copy Share Image
“Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks, evolution raises such profound questions of purpose, morality,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“... Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
