As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can… — Leroy Cronin Copy Share Image
It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez Copy Share Image
“I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents,… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
“CONTRARY TO THE COMMON ASSUMPTION , Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the nineteenth century,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most striking feature of the west European Upper Palaeolithic, one on which many writers comment, is a sharp increase in… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides… — Luis Federico Leloir Copy Share Image
Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“Engels’s view of evolution was Lamarckian, rather than strictly Darwinian, in that he believed that characteristics acquired by individuals could be inherited… — Terrell Carver Copy Share Image
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.” — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“Just as there are several components of the immune system, each of which protects us against particular kinds of invasions, there are… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“With all respect to your religion or world-view — thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes — the keyword is "thank"… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Like a wise serpent shedding her skin, you are called to release whatever is no longer authentic or doesn’t serve your highest… — Elizabeth Eiler Copy Share Image
Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health,… — John Sharp Copy Share Image
God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, behind you and before you. Do you think God is sleeping on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In my Ph.D. thesis, written in 1989, I discussed the fact that when a civilization develops the technology to prevent catastrophic asteroid… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems,… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
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