We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
You cannot evolve unless you are willing to change. You will never better yourself, if you always cling to what was. — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
“The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The power of your ancestors and the magic of the cosmos is in your DNA” — Jan Porter Copy Share Image
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Anything new is met with suspicion and has been throughout the entire history of time, but it's just evolution once you get… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved… The precise… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“The tightness of genetic linkage, in short, was a surrogate for the physical proximity of genes on chromosomes: by measuring how often… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“For many centuries people have believed that there is continuity between the individual in utero and the individual in the world; now… — Annie Murphy Paul Copy Share Image
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Humans have evolved after the Apocalypse and the war, just like her machine-bugs evolve fighting toads in Meera’s wild garden. Some people… — Misba Copy Share Image
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric… — Christian B. Anfinsen Copy Share Image
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
“the transforming principle could not be made of DNA because nucleic acids were all alike. As” — Matthew Cobb Copy Share Image
“Evolution isn't 'survival of the fittest,' for Christ's sake. In the long run, linearly, it's survival of the most prolific.” — Ron Sanders Copy Share Image
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. — Adrian Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“You, Cono, are part of a new trend of uncovering the genetic basis of human performance anomalies.” — Victor Robert Lee Copy Share Image
My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.” — James D. Carswell Copy Share Image
No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful. — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Self study leads to improvisation and improvisation leads to evolution.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image