Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms. — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
“Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.” — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
“Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive because at this very early stage there is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.” — Self Copy Share Image
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
“(We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table of evolution… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and,… — David Grann Copy Share Image
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image