The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To banish the Hideous Damsel's darkness is to sterilize one's chance at the evolution she brings.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous… — George Wald Copy Share Image
If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere! — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“This brings me back to the statement that thee is no such thing as living matter. In the cell, all the parts… — Wallace Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
“Our body’s evolutionary journey is also far from over. Natural selection didn’t stop when farming started but instead has continued and continues… — Daniel E. Lieberman Copy Share Image
It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It seems to me trivially true that particle physics does in fact deal with the simplest objects in the entire universe: atoms… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The reason or dog's evolution could be to guide humans to their higher purpose.” — Kristen Von Kreisler Copy Share Image