“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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop… — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
“ARE WE REALLY JUST ANIMALS? Of all the questions a skeptical person might ask about Darwin, I’ve come to believe that this… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Science is leading us forward in our evolution in the area of spiritual consciousness, in a sense. They're leading us to a… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
Well I think fundamentally, what I think surprises me is the creationist movement, and the notion that somehow you can't believe in… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Curiosity, that is, the separate drive to explore the world disinterestedly, without being stimulated by danger or physiological dissatisfaction, is, according to… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to… — Greg Graffin 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not… — Herbert Spencer Jennings Copy Share Image
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years… — Mark Twain 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