I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Dissection ... teaches us that the body of man is made up of certain kinds of material, so differing from each other… — Michael Foster Copy Share Image
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
“Even properly functioning defenses are subject to activation errors, evolutionary/developmental mismatches and maladaptive learning; moreover, mechanisms that are initially functional may become… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am influenced by philosophies like the one at Chelsea which was 'If it isn't broken, change it' which saw us… — Eniola Aluko Copy Share Image
“From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
“Dawkins claims that the living world came to be by way of unguided evolution: “the Evidence of Evolution,” he says, “Reveals a… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens,… — Mark Hyman Copy Share Image
“Science, even evolutionary science, bases its theories, its predictions, and its conclusions on the stability of physical laws. Evolutionary science makes the… — Henry Morris III Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Ernesto "Che" Guevara Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative,… — Michael Ghiselin Copy Share Image
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the creationists that I've encountered diligently deny that our Earth's climate is being altered by people. This point of view and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the… — Wallace Pratt Copy Share Image
[as for evolution]…cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Genes are merely codes. They act as a set of rules and as a biological template for the synthesis of the proteins… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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