'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it:… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
The evolution of football has seen a reduction in the space between the teams. It is therefore important for the modern footballer… — Frank Rijkaard Copy Share Image
I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ...… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“The chemicals along a strand of DNA are arranged so that the molecule can make a copy of itself. Things being the… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The oldest many-celled fossil is over 600 million years old. The earliest fossil with a three-boned middle ear is less than 200… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Time helps those who are present, gravity helps those who are moving, nature helps those who evolve, reality listens to those who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Humans have far longer memories than do animals and, thus revenge -the social settling of accounts with those who offended them- assumes… — Azar Gat Copy Share Image
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Thinking your way through life’s challenges with the limited perspective of your five senses, will no longer work! YOU must expand your… — Elaine Seiler Copy Share Image
For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
The biggest reveal was that a lot of these DNA test companies, they're commercial enterprises, right? So they basically purchase or acquire… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“DNA also reveals behavior. Culture can become embedded in our cells just as it gets buried in the floors of caves, bogs,… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“Control, maybe? Control the genetically damaged population by teaching them that there’s something wrong with them, and control the genetically pure population… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of… — Clare Bowen Copy Share Image
The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH,"… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image