“The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for He cherishes all creatures. He is not only the Creator, but He… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of… — John Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It was a Rube Goldberg disease. A change in the sequence of a gene caused the change in the sequence of a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Wherever people are in their evolution, they start to come into that hope and feeling like they are okay, that they're going… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
In the first Chucky film, there's a scene in the elevator where a woman is just bringing food to a friend's home… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“The irony, and inherent tension, of evolutionary biology is that this search for rational coherence - for "consilience," as Wilson likes to… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as… — Herbert Boyer Copy Share Image
You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
America is progressing towards a stronger, more inclusive future - and I know women of color are a driving force in that… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“In other words, the more genomically complex the organism, the larger the percentage of the genome devoted to gene regulation by the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
“In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so… — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image