I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The volume usually chosen is that occupied by a mole of the gas (its molecular weight in grams), which is 22.4 liters… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The whole system of government needs remodeling & the failing system of capitalism needs replacing, reformation will fix neither & you know… — Deri Isaac Copy Share Image
[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of… — Louis T. Moore Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think it’s imperative that we continue confusing light with meaning. That’s how the human race evolves. Someone sees a light, names… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
You have to be open to change. I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam. I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“THE evidence for evolution grows by the day, and has never been stronger. At the same time, paradoxically, ill-informed opposition is also… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Our earliest ancestors were descended from primates who thrived for millions of years in a treetop environment, and who in the process… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success,"… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
I think that comics and television, as mediums, go hand in hand. Both tell long-form, continuing stories that are parsed out into… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan.… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
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