Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With… — Jacky Ickx Copy Share Image
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
My record, Evolution, is really about me evolving as an artist and trying a few new things. There's a song called, Road… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“This exciting new field of epigenetics--meaning literally "around" the gene--allows us to see how environmental factors alter our gene expression in a… — Woodson Merrell Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from… — Gerald A. Kerkut Copy Share Image
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is… — Richard Smalley Copy Share Image
“When we discover the secrets behind the cryptograph that is the human gene, we will not only decode the mystery of life,… — Dr. Ceral Sinclaire Nobel Laureate Geneticist Copy Share Image
No conscious person can read Peter D'Adamo's works without considering much more thoughtfully how their genetic inheritance relates to their needs for… — Jeffrey Bland Copy Share Image
You can believe you came from a monkey all you want but if it was true I would be to emberassed to… — Zach Dutton Copy Share Image
While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
“improving on the natural course if evolution—which, attendees argued, could be so cruel as to justify some sort of intervention.” — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization-that… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
“It has repeated elements that appear frequently. A pesky, mysterious three-hundred-base-pair sequence called Alu appears and reappears tens of thousands of times,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
