Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“Are you an evolutionist? I’m an absurdist, ma’am. But let’s suppose evolution is true; what about the monkeys today? Why can’t we… — Harrison Wheeler Copy Share Image
It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings.… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally… — Frank Sulloway Copy Share Image
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“The discovery of an interaction among the four hemes made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan. — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
“The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle… — Michelle Chamuel Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized. — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Raw foodists are kind of paddling upstream against evolution. The only reason they can do it, and they don't all keel over,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“While micro-evolution--change within species--has been observed in the laboratory, macro-evolution--change from one species to another has not, and never will be.” — Bob Beasley Copy Share Image
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“To ask whether it's nature or nurture, says Kagan, is like asking whether a blizzard is caused by temperature or humidity. It's… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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