The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain,… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what… — William Temple Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the… — Fabio Novembre Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design is one way Catholics approach creation from a standpoint that accommodates both faith and reason (religion and science). Are not… — John Trigilio Copy Share Image
“you're telling me that if i keep dropping bombs into a junkyard, someday all the pieces will blast together into a perfect… — Laurence B. Brown Copy Share Image
jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed,… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“The phenomena of asexual propagation and of parthenogenesis appear to be neither more nor less fundamental than those of sexual reproduction. I… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If A was tightly linked to B, and very loosely linked to C, Sturtevant reasoned, then the three genes must be positioned… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants.… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“A flower's structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don't know of any such… — David Rains Wallace Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
“Simple evolution. Most humans die of a fairy kiss; only the strong ones survive. So any halfies – they're made of some… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
