The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are… — Wolfgang Paul Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time. — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is… — Richard Smalley Copy Share Image
It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense,… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image