I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are… — Wolfgang Paul Copy Share Image
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as perfection, only the relentless, thirsty matching of an organism to its environment. That is the engine… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe - while selling us the chance to know whether we're Vikings or whatever, they're amassing… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
On a global picture, if you look at the evolution of the shopping business model, many consumers tend to ask for faster… — Laure Heriard-Dubreuil Copy Share Image
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“All biological and artificial mechanisms -no matter how well designed- are vulnerable to malfunctions, failures, and breakdowns. Even if developmental processes are… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“For DNA to reproduce, it needs to unzip itself down the middle, and the topology of the dna chain dictates which knots… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The circular flow of biological information - Genes encode RNAs to build Proteins to form/regulate Organisms that sense Environments that influence Proteins,… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
“The question is no longer whether there is a genetic component to athletic potential and endurance and strength trainability, but exactly which… — Joe Friel Copy Share Image
There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to… — Beck Copy Share Image
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
“No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“The lactase-prolonging mutations conferred an enormous advantage on their owners, letting them leave ten times more surviving children than those without the… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness,… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
