We are just collections of DNA optimized for particular…

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

— Paul Allen

“Design is art optimized to meet objectives.”

— Shimon Shmueli

“The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.”

— Peter Watts

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

— Erik Naggum

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is…

— Virchand Gandhi

Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

— Tom DeLay

We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all…

— Wangechi Mutu

“Genetics is a science full of gods, Mr. Sanchez.”

— Valeria Luiselli

If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be…

— Giulio Natta

“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only…

— David G. McAfee

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

— Richard Dawkins

I rap when I'm rich. I rap when I'm broke. I rap when I'm bullshit in the street. I rap about only having one…

— Killer Mike