As you live you evolve and grow and discover, and I don't like to look at anything as an arrival. I always… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Fossils do not require long ages to form. In fact, they must form quickly, otherwise the organism’s softer tissues and even bones… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“History does show that boys who dance are far more likely to pass along their genes than boys who don't. Boys who… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to… — Chip Walter Copy Share Image
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle… — Christopher Knight Copy Share Image
“Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
“If prana and apana are expressions of function, what of the structural conditions that have to exist in a cell in order… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than… — Richard Goldschmidt Copy Share Image
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
'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
Darwinism is under official protection throughout the world. No other ideology in history, no other idea, has ever been kept under such… — Harun Yahya 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
“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
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